The Lamentations of Jeremiah 3

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1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath ⚑

2 He hath led me and brought me into darkness but not into light ⚑

3 Surely against me is he turned he turneth his hand against me all the day ⚑

4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old he hath broken my bones ⚑

5 He hath builded against me and compassed me with gall and travail ⚑

6 He hath set me in dark places as they that be dead of old ⚑

7 He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out he hath made my chain heavy ⚑

8 Also when I cry and shout he shutteth out my prayer ⚑

9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone he hath made my paths crooked ⚑

10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places ⚑

11 He hath turned aside my ways and pulled me in pieces he hath made me desolate ⚑

12 He hath bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow ⚑

13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins ⚑

14 I was a derision to all my people and their song all the day ⚑

15 He hath filled me with bitterness he hath made me drunken with wormwood ⚑

16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones he hath covered me with ashes ⚑

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace I forgat prosperity ⚑

18 And I said My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD ⚑

19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery the wormwood and the gall ⚑

20 My soul hath them still in remembrance and is humbled in me ⚑

21 This I recall to my mind therefore have I hope ⚑

22 It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not ⚑

23 They are new every morning great is thy faithfulness ⚑

24 The LORD is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in him ⚑

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh him ⚑

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD ⚑

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth ⚑

28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence because he hath borne it upon him ⚑

29 He putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope ⚑

30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him he is filled full with reproach ⚑

31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever ⚑

32 But though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies ⚑

33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men ⚑

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth ⚑

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High ⚑

36 To subvert a man in his cause the Lord approveth not ⚑

37 Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the Lord commandeth it not ⚑

38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good ⚑

39 Wherefore doth a living man complain a man for the punishment of his sins ⚑

40 Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the LORD ⚑

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens ⚑

42 We have transgressed and have rebelled thou hast not pardoned ⚑

43 Thou hast covered with anger and persecuted us thou hast slain thou hast not pitied ⚑

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer should not pass through ⚑

45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people ⚑

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us ⚑

47 Fear and a snare is come upon us desolation and destruction ⚑

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people ⚑

49 Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not without any intermission ⚑

50 Till the LORD look down and behold from heaven ⚑

51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city ⚑

52 Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird without cause ⚑

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon and cast a stone upon me ⚑

54 Waters flowed over mine head then I said I am cut off ⚑

55 I called upon thy name O LORD out of the low dungeon ⚑

56 Thou hast heard my voice hide not thine ear at my breathing at my cry ⚑

57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee thou saidst Fear not ⚑

58 O Lord thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul thou hast redeemed my life ⚑

59 O LORD thou hast seen my wrong judge thou my cause ⚑

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me ⚑

61 Thou hast heard their reproach O LORD and all their imaginations against me ⚑

62 The lips of those that rose up against me and their device against me all the day ⚑

63 Behold their sitting down and their rising up I am their musick ⚑

64 Render unto them a recompence O LORD according to the work of their hands ⚑

65 Give them sorrow of heart thy curse unto them ⚑

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain