Lamentations 3 — UBES

3Verse 1I am the man that sees poverty,
Through the rod of his wrath upon me.
^{Verse 2}He has taken me, and led me away into darkness,
And not into light.
^{Verse 3}Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.
^{Verse 4}He has made old my flesh and my skin;
He has broken my bones.^{Verse 5}He has built against me, and compassed my head,
And brought travail upon me.
^{Verse 6}He has set me in dark places,
As them that have long been dead.
^{Verse 7}He has built against me, and I cannot come forth:
He has made my brazen chain heavy.^{Verse 8}Yea, though I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.^{Verse 9}He has built up my ways,
He has hedged my paths;
^{Verse 10}He has troubled me,
As a she-bear lying in wait:
He is to me as a lion in secret places.
^{Verse 11}He pursued me after I departed,
And brought me to a stand:
He has utterly ruined me.^{Verse 12}He has bent his bow,
And set me as a mark for the arrow.
^{Verse 13}He has caused the arrows of his quiver
To enter into my reins.
^{Verse 14}I became a laughingstock to all my people;
And their song all the day.^{Verse 15}He has filled me with bitterness,
He has drenched me with gall.
^{Verse 16}And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel,
He has fed me with ashes.
^{Verse 17}He has also removed my soul from peace:
I forgot prosperity.
^{Verse 18}Therefore my success has perished,
And my hope from the Lord.^{Verse 19}I remembered by reason of my poverty,
And because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;
^{Verse 20}And my soul shall meditate with me.
^{Verse 21}This will I lay up in my heart,
Therefore will I endure.^{Verse 22}It is the mercies of the Lord,
That he has not failed me,
Because his compassions are not exhausted.
Pity us, O Lord,
Early every month:
For we are not brought to an end,
Because his compassions are not exhausted.
^{Verse 23}They are new every morning:
Great is thy faithfulness.
^{Verse 24}The Lord is my portion, says my soul;
Therefore will I wait for him.^{Verse 25}The Lord is good to them that wait for him:
The soul which shall seek him
^{Verse 26}Is good, and shall wait for,
And quietly expect salvation of the Lord.^{Verse 27}It is good for a man
When he bears a yoke in his youth.
^{Verse 28}He will sit alone, and be silent,
Because he has borne it upon him.^{Verse 30}He will give his cheek to him that smites him:
He will be filled full with reproaches.
^{Verse 31}For the Lord will not reject forever.^{Verse 32}For he that has brought down will pity,
And that according to the abundance of his mercy.
^{Verse 33}He has not answered in anger from his heart,
Though he has brought low the children of a man.^{Verse 34}To bring down under his feet
All the prisoners of the earth,
^{Verse 35}To turn aside the judgment of a man
Before the face of the Most High,
^{Verse 36}To condemn a man unjustly in his judgment,
The Lord has not given commandment.
^{Verse 37}Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass?
The Lord has not commanded it.
^{Verse 38}Out of the mouth of the Most High
There shall not come forth evil and good.^{Verse 39}Why should a living man complain,
A man concerning his sin?^{Verse 40}Our way has been searched out and examined,
And we will turn to the Lord.
^{Verse 41}Let us lift up our hearts with our hands
To the lofty One in heaven.
^{Verse 42}We have sinned,
We have transgressed;
And thou hast not pardoned.^{Verse 43}Thou hast visited us in wrath,
And driven us away:
Thou hast slain,
Thou hast not pitied.
^{Verse 44}Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud
Because of prayer,
That I might be blind,
^{Verse 45}And be cast off.
Thou hast set us alone
In the midst of the nations.
^{Verse 46}All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
^{Verse 47}Fear and wrath are come upon us,
Suspense and destruction.
^{Verse 48}Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water,
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.^{Verse 49}Mine eye is drowned with tears,
And I will not be silent,
So that there shall be no rest,
^{Verse 50}Until the Lord look down,
And behold from heaven.
^{Verse 51}Mine eye shall prey upon my soul,
Because of all the daughters of the city.^{Verse 52}The fowlers chased me as a sparrow,
All mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,
^{Verse 53}And laid a stone upon me.
^{Verse 54}Water flowed over my head:
I said, I am cut off.^{Verse 55}I called upon thy name, O Lord,
Out of the lowest dungeon.
^{Verse 56}Thou heardest my voice:
Close not thine ears to my supplication.
^{Verse 57}Thou drewest nigh to my help:
In the day wherein I called upon thee
Thou saidst to me, Fear not.^{Verse 58}O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul;
Thou hast redeemed my life.
^{Verse 59}Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles:
Thou hast judged my cause.
^{Verse 60}Thou hast seen all their vengeance,
Thou hast looked on all their devices against me.^{Verse 61}Thou hast heard their reproach
And all their devices against me;
^{Verse 62}The lips of them that rose up against me,
And their plots against me all the day;
^{Verse 63}Their sitting down and their rising up:
Look thou upon their eyes.
^{Verse 64}Thou wilt render them a recompense, O Lord,
According to the works of their hands.^{Verse 65}Thou wilt give them as a covering,
The grief of my heart.
^{Verse 66}Thou wilt persecute them in anger,
And wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.