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Lamentations 3 (NET)

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Lamentations 3:1¹I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of the Lord ’s wrath.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:2²He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:3³He repeatedly attacks me; he turns his hand against me all day long. ב (Bet )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:4⁴He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:5⁵He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:6⁶He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. ג (Gimel )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:7⁷He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:8⁸Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:9⁹He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. ד (Dalet )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:10¹⁰To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:11¹¹He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:12¹²He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow. ה (He )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:13¹³He shot his arrows into my heart.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:14¹⁴I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:15¹⁵He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. ו (Vav )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:16¹⁶He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:17¹⁷I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:18¹⁸So I said, “My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord.” ז (Zayin )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:19¹⁹Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:20²⁰I continually think about this, and I am depressed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:21²¹But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope: ח (Khet )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:22²²The Lord ’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:23²³They are fresh every morning; your faithfulness is abundant!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:24²⁴“My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him. ט (Tet )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:25²⁵The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:26²⁶It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:27²⁷It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. י (Yod )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:28²⁸Let a person sit alone in silence, when the Lord is disciplining him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:29²⁹Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:30³⁰Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults. כ (Kaf )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:31³¹For the Lord will not reject us forever.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:32³²Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:33³³For he is not predisposed to afflict or to grieve people. ל (Lamed )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:34³⁴To crush underfoot all the earth’s prisoners,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:35³⁵to deprive a person of his rights in the presence of the Most High,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:36³⁶to defraud a person in a lawsuit— the Lord does not approve of such things! מ (Mem )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:37³⁷Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:38³⁸Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes— both calamity and blessing?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:39³⁹Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins? נ (Nun )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:40⁴⁰Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:41⁴¹Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:42⁴²“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.” ס (Samek )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:43⁴³You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:44⁴⁴You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer could get through.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:45⁴⁵You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations. פ (Pe )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:46⁴⁶All our enemies have gloated over us;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:47⁴⁷panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:48⁴⁸Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. ע (Ayin )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:49⁴⁹Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no breakCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:50⁵⁰until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:51⁵¹What my eyes see grieves me — all the suffering of the daughters in my city. צ (Tsade )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:52⁵²For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:53⁵³They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:54⁵⁴The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die. ק (Qof )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:55⁵⁵I have called on your name, O Lord, from the deepest pit.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:56⁵⁶You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:57⁵⁷You came near on the day I called to you; you said, “Do not fear!” ר (Resh )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:58⁵⁸O Lord, you championed my cause; you redeemed my life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:59⁵⁹You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; pronounce judgment on my behalf!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:60⁶⁰You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. ש (Sin/Shin )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:61⁶¹You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:62⁶²My assailants revile and conspire against me all day long.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:63⁶³Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs. ת (Tav )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:64⁶⁴Pay them back what they deserve, O Lord, according to what they have done.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:65⁶⁵Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Lamentations 3:66⁶⁶Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the Lord ’s heaven.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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