Lamentations 3

¹I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 88:7Job 19:21Ps 88:15-16Isa 53:3Jer 15:17-18Jer 20:14-18Jer 38:6Lam 1:12-14Ps 71:20

²He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 59:9Job 30:26Amos 5:18-20Deut 28:29Jer 13:16Jer 4:23Job 18:18Jude 1:13Jude 1:6Lam 2:1

³Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 29:20Isa 1:25Isa 5:25Isa 63:10Job 31:21Lam 2:4-7

⁴My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 38:13Ps 51:8Jer 50:17Ps 31:9-10Ps 38:2-8Ps 102:3-5Job 16:8-9Ps 22:14Ps 32:3

⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 3:19Jer 23:15Job 19:8Jer 8:14Jer 9:15Lam 3:7-9Ps 69:21

⁶He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 88:5-6Ps 143:3Ps 143:7

⁷He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 19:8Job 3:23Hos 2:6Jer 38:6Jer 40:4Lam 1:14Ps 88:8Dan 9:12Lam 3:9Lam 5:5

⁸Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 30:20Ps 22:2Job 19:7Lam 3:44Matt 27:46Hab 1:2Ps 80:4

⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 63:17Hos 2:6Isa 30:28Lam 3:11

¹⁰He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Amos 5:18-20Hos 13:7-8Hos 5:14Hos 6:1Isa 38:13Job 10:16Ps 10:9Ps 17:12

¹¹He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hos 6:1Job 16:12-13Lam 1:13Dan 2:40-44Dan 7:23Isa 3:26Jer 19:8Jer 32:43Jer 5:6Jer 51:20-22

¹²He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 38:2Job 7:20Job 6:4Lam 2:4Ps 7:12-13Job 16:12-13

¹³He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 6:4Deut 32:23Job 41:28

¹⁴I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 20:7Lam 3:63Ps 22:6-71 Cor 4:9-13Jer 48:27Job 30:1-9Matt 27:39-44Neh 4:2-4Ps 123:3-4Ps 137:3

¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 9:15Isa 51:17-22Jer 23:15Jer 25:15-18Jer 25:27Job 9:18Lam 3:19Ps 60:3Ruth 1:20

¹⁶He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 20:17Jer 6:26Ps 3:7Ps 58:6Job 2:8Job 4:10Jonah 3:6Luke 11:11Matt 7:9Ps 102:9

¹⁷And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 59:11Gen 41:30Isa 38:17Isa 54:10Jer 14:19Jer 16:5Jer 20:14-18Jer 8:15Job 7:7Lam 1:16

¹⁸And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 17:151 Sam 27:1Ezek 37:11Job 6:11Ps 116:11Ps 31:22

¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 3:15Lam 3:5Jer 9:15Job 7:7Neh 9:32Ps 132:1Ps 89:47Ps 89:50

²⁰My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 42:11Ps 42:5-6Job 21:6Ps 43:5Ps 146:8Ps 44:25

²¹This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hab 2:3Ps 130:7Ps 77:7-11Lam 3:24-29Ps 119:81

²²It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 86:15Luke 1:50Neh 9:31Mic 7:18-19Mal 3:6Ps 78:38Ps 106:45Ps 77:8Ezek 20:8-9Ezra 9:8-9

²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Heb 10:23Ps 30:5Isa 33:2Ps 36:5Ps 89:33Zeph 3:5Exod 34:6Ps 146:6Heb 6:18Titus 1:2

²⁴The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 73:26Ps 16:5Ps 142:5Lam 3:21Ps 33:18Jer 51:19Job 13:15Ps 31:24Ps 62:81 Chr 5:20

²⁵The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mic 7:7-8Isa 40:31Ps 130:5-6Lam 3:26Ps 37:34Ps 40:1-5Ps 27:14Ps 37:7Isa 25:9Isa 30:18

²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 37:7Ps 37:34Ps 130:5Gen 49:18Heb 10:351 Pet 1:13Heb 3:14Isa 30:15Ps 119:1662 Chr 20:17

²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 12:1Matt 11:29-30Ps 119:71Ps 94:12Heb 12:5-12Ps 90:12

²⁸He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 15:17Lam 2:10Ps 102:7Ps 39:9

²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 40:42 Chr 33:12Ezek 16:63Jer 31:17Job 42:5-6Joel 2:14Jonah 3:9Luke 15:18-19Luke 18:13Rom 3:19

³⁰He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 50:6Job 16:10Matt 26:67Matt 5:392 Cor 11:20Luke 6:29Mic 5:1Ps 123:3Ps 69:20Ps 69:9

³¹For the Lord will not cast off for ever: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 94:14Ps 103:8-10Ps 77:7Isa 54:7-101 Sam 12:22Isa 57:16Jer 32:40Jer 31:37Jer 33:24Mic 7:18

³²But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 78:38Ps 30:5Ps 103:11Exod 3:7Hos 11:8Judg 10:16Ps 106:43-45Jer 31:20Luke 15:202 Kgs 13:23

³³For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 33:11Ezek 18:32Heb 12:9-10Isa 28:21

³⁴To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Zech 9:11-12Isa 51:22-23Isa 49:9Jer 51:33-36Ps 102:20Ps 69:33Isa 14:17Ps 79:11Jer 50:17Jer 50:33-34

³⁵To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

³⁶To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 59:15Hab 1:132 Sam 11:27Jer 22:3

³⁷Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 33:9-11Isa 46:10Prov 16:9Prov 19:21Prov 21:30Dan 4:35Eph 1:11Jas 4:13-15Rom 9:15

³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 45:7Amos 3:6Jer 32:42Job 2:10Ps 75:7Prov 29:26

³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mic 7:9Prov 19:3Gen 4:5-7Jer 30:152 Kgs 3:132 Kgs 6:322 Sam 6:7-8Ezra 9:13Gen 4:13-14Heb 12:5-12

⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Cor 13:5Ps 139:23-24Joel 2:12-13Isa 55:7Ps 4:4Ps 119:59Hag 1:5-9Hos 6:1Hos 14:1-31 Cor 11:28

⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 25:1Ps 28:2Ps 143:6-8Ps 86:41 Thess 2:8Ps 141:2Ps 63:4

⁴²We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 5:7-9Luke 15:18-19Neh 9:262 Kgs 24:4Dan 9:5-14Ezek 24:13Jer 3:13Job 33:27-28Lam 1:18Lam 5:16

⁴³Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 2:17Lam 2:21Lam 2:1-2Lam 3:66Ps 83:152 Chr 36:16-17Ezek 7:9Ezek 8:18Ezek 9:10Ps 44:19

⁴⁴Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 3:8Zech 7:13Ps 97:2Jer 15:1Jer 14:11Ps 80:4

⁴⁵Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 4:13Deut 28:13Deut 28:37Deut 28:44Lam 2:15Lam 3:14Lam 4:14-15

⁴⁶All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 2:16Ps 22:6-8Exod 11:7Job 30:9-11Matt 27:38-45Ps 44:13-14Ps 79:10Ps 79:4

⁴⁷Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 24:17-18Isa 51:19Jer 48:43-44Lam 1:13Lam 1:4Lam 2:1-9Luke 21:35

⁴⁸Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 9:1Jer 9:18Lam 2:11Jer 13:17Jer 4:19Lam 1:16Lam 2:18Ps 119:136Rom 9:1-3

⁴⁹Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 14:17Ps 77:2Lam 1:16

⁵⁰Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 63:15Lam 5:1Ps 102:19-20Ps 80:14-16Dan 9:16-19Isa 62:6-7Isa 64:1Lam 2:20

⁵¹Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 19:9Luke 19:41-441 Sam 30:3-4Jer 11:22Jer 14:16Jer 14:18Jer 4:19-21Lam 1:18Lam 2:21Lam 5:11

⁵²Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 35:19Ps 35:71 Sam 24:10-151 Sam 25:28-291 Sam 26:18-20Jer 37:15-16Jer 37:18Jer 38:4-6John 15:25Ps 109:3

⁵³They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Dan 6:17Jer 38:6Jer 38:9Jer 37:16Jer 37:20Matt 27:60Matt 27:66

⁵⁴Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jonah 2:3-5Ezek 37:112 Cor 1:8-10Lam 3:18Ps 18:4Isa 38:10-13Job 17:11-16Ps 124:4-5Ps 31:22Ps 69:1-2

⁵⁵I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 16:24-282 Chr 33:11-12Jer 38:6Jonah 2:2-4Ps 116:3-4Ps 130:1-2Ps 142:3-7Ps 18:5-6Ps 40:1-2Ps 69:13-18

⁵⁶Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 38:5Job 34:28Ps 34:6Ps 55:1Ps 6:8-9Ps 88:13-142 Chr 33:13Ps 116:1-2Ps 3:4Ps 66:19

⁵⁷Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 41:10Jas 4:8Isa 58:9Isa 41:14Rev 2:10Isa 43:1-2Ps 145:18Acts 18:9Acts 27:24Jer 1:17

⁵⁸O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 34:22-35:1Jer 51:36Ps 103:4Jer 50:34Ps 71:23Gen 48:161 Sam 25:39

⁵⁹O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 43:11 Pet 2:23Gen 31:42Ps 26:1Ps 35:1Ps 9:4Jer 18:18-23Jer 20:7-10Jer 37:1-21Ps 35:23

⁶⁰Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 11:19-20Lam 3:59Ps 10:14

⁶¹Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lam 5:1Ps 89:50Zeph 2:8Ps 74:18Lam 3:30

⁶²The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezek 36:3Ps 140:3Ps 59:12Ps 59:7Jer 18:18

⁶³Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 139:2Lam 3:14Job 30:9

⁶⁴Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 28:4Jer 11:202 Tim 4:14Rev 6:10Jer 50:29Rev 18:6

⁶⁵Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 6:101 Cor 16:22Deut 2:30Deut 27:15-26Ps 109:17-18

⁶⁶Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 8:3Deut 25:19Jer 10:11Lam 3:43Ps 115:162 Kgs 14:27Deut 29:20Deut 7:24Isa 66:1Ps 35:6