Thematic Bible
Lamentations 3:1 (show verse)
I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:2 (show verse)
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Lamentations 3:3 (show verse)
Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
Lamentations 3:4 (show verse)
My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:5 (show verse)
He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.
Lamentations 3:6 (show verse)
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Lamentations 3:7 (show verse)
He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:8 (show verse)
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9 (show verse)
He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10 (show verse)
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3:11 (show verse)
He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:12 (show verse)
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3:13 (show verse)
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
Lamentations 3:14 (show verse)
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Lamentations 3:15 (show verse)
He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:16 (show verse)
He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
Lamentations 3:17 (show verse)
You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
Lamentations 3:18 (show verse)
I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
Lamentations 3:19 (show verse)
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:20 (show verse)
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
Lamentations 3:21 (show verse)
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:22 (show verse)
[It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
Lamentations 3:23 (show verse)
They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:24 (show verse)
Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3:25 (show verse)
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
God » Voice of select readings » Waiting for
God, Goodness of » Manifested » To his church
Patience » In waiting for God
Seeking God » Ensures » His favor
Waiting » Those that wait on the lord
Waiting » Those who engage in » Experience his goodness
Waiting upon God » They who engage in » Experience his goodness
God, Goodness of » Manifested » To his church
Patience » In waiting for God
Seeking God » Ensures » His favor
Waiting » Those that wait on the lord
Waiting » Those who engage in » Experience his goodness
Waiting upon God » They who engage in » Experience his goodness
Lamentations 3:26 (show verse)
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
Lamentations 3:27 (show verse)
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:28 (show verse)
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
Lamentations 3:29 (show verse)
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:30 (show verse)
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
Lamentations 3:31 (show verse)
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Lamentations 3:32 (show verse)
For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Lamentations 3:33 (show verse)
For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations 3:34 (show verse)
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations 3:35 (show verse)
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
Lamentations 3:36 (show verse)
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.
Lamentations 3:37 (show verse)
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
Lamentations 3:38 (show verse)
Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Lamentations 3:39 (show verse)
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Afflicted saints » Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements
Afflictions » The lord not afflicting
Anger of God » To be born with submission
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Murmuring » Condemned
Murmuring » Unreasonableness of
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Sin
Resignation » Motives to » Our own sinfulness
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Afflictions » The lord not afflicting
Anger of God » To be born with submission
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Murmuring » Condemned
Murmuring » Unreasonableness of
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Sin
Resignation » Motives to » Our own sinfulness
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Lamentations 3:40 (show verse)
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Awakenings and religious reforms » Revivals (select reading, isa chap 35) isa 35 » General references to
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Self-examination
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With purpose of amendment
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With diligent search
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Self-examination
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With purpose of amendment
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With diligent search
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Lamentations 3:41 (show verse)
Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3:42 (show verse)
We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:43 (show verse)
You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.
Lamentations 3:44 (show verse)
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:45 (show verse)
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:46 (show verse)
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:47 (show verse)
Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:48 (show verse)
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:49 (show verse)
My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
Lamentations 3:50 (show verse)
Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.
Lamentations 3:51 (show verse)
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Lamentations 3:52 (show verse)
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
Lamentations 3:53 (show verse)
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
Lamentations 3:54 (show verse)
Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3:55 (show verse)
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
Lamentations 3:56 (show verse)
You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lamentations 3:57 (show verse)
You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:58 (show verse)
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:59 (show verse)
Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:60 (show verse)
You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:61 (show verse)
You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:62 (show verse)
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:63 (show verse)
You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Lamentations 3:64 (show verse)
You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65 (show verse)
You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
Lamentations 3:66 (show verse)
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.