Lamentations 3 — KJVA
3Verse 1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.Verse 2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.Verse 3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.Verse 4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.Verse 5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.Verse 6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.Verse 7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.Verse 8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.Verse 9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.Verse 10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.Verse 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.Verse 12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.Verse 13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.+Verse 14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.Verse 15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.+Verse 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.+Verse 17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.+Verse 18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:Verse 19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.+Verse 20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.+Verse 21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.+Verse 22¶ It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.Verse 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.Verse 24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.Verse 25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.Verse 26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.Verse 27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.Verse 28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.Verse 29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.Verse 30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.Verse 31For the Lord will not cast off for ever:Verse 32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.Verse 33For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.+Verse 34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,Verse 35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,+Verse 36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.+Verse 37¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?Verse 38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?Verse 39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?+Verse 40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.Verse 41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.Verse 42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.Verse 43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.Verse 44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.Verse 45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.Verse 46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.Verse 47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.Verse 48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.Verse 49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,Verse 50Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.Verse 51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.++Verse 52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.Verse 53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.Verse 54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.Verse 55¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.Verse 56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.Verse 57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.Verse 58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.Verse 59O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.Verse 60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.Verse 61Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;Verse 62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.Verse 63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.Verse 64¶ Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.Verse 65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.+Verse 66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.