Lamentations 3 — GNB

3Verse 1I am the man that hath seen affliction under the rod of His wrath;^{Verse 2}He hath led me and brought me into darkness, and not into light;^{Verse 3}Yea, against me doth he again and again turn his hand all the day long.^{Verse 4}My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.^{Verse 5}He hath builded against me, and encompassed me with bitterness and woe.^{Verse 6}He hath set me in dark places, as those that have long been dead.^{Verse 7}He hath hedged me about, so that I cannot get out; he hath made my chain heavy;^{Verse 8}Yea, when I cry and call aloud, he shutteth out my prayer.^{Verse 9}He blocketh up my way with hewn stone; he maketh my paths crooked.^{Verse 10}A bear lying in wait hath he been to me, a lion in lurking-places.^{Verse 11}He hath turned aside my ways, and torn me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.^{Verse 12}He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.^{Verse 13}He hath caused the sons of his quiver to pierce my reins.^{Verse 14}I have been a laughing-stock to all my people, their song all the day.^{Verse 15}He hath filled me with bitterness; he hath made me drunk with wormwood.^{Verse 16}He hath also broken my teeth with gravel-stones; He hath covered me with ashes.^{Verse 17}Yea, thou hast removed my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.^{Verse 18}And I say, “My confidence and my hope in Jehovah are gone!”^{Verse 19}Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall!^{Verse 20}Yea, thou wilt remember them, for my soul sinketh within me!^{Verse 21}This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope;^{Verse 22}It is of the mercy of Jehovah that we are not consumed; yea, his compassion faileth not;^{Verse 23}It is new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.^{Verse 24}Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul, therefore do I hope in him.^{Verse 25}Jehovah is good to them that trust in him, to the soul that seeketh him.^{Verse 26}It is good that a man hope, and quietly wait for salvation from Jehovah.^{Verse 27}It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth;^{Verse 28}That he sit alone and keep silence, since He layeth it upon him;^{Verse 29}That he put his mouth in the dust, [[saying to himself,]] “Perhaps there may be hope!”^{Verse 30}That he offer his cheek to the smiter; that he be filled with reproach.^{Verse 31}For the Lord will not cast off forever;^{Verse 32}For though he cause grief, yet doth he have compassion according to his great mercy;^{Verse 33}For he doth not willingly afflict and grieve the children of men.^{Verse 34}Doth one trample under foot all the prisoners of the earth,^{Verse 35}Doth he bend the right of a man before the face of the Most High,^{Verse 36}Doth he subvert a man in his cause, and shall not the Lord behold it?^{Verse 37}Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord hath not commanded?^{Verse 38}Cometh not evil, as well as good, from the mouth of the Most High?^{Verse 39}Wherefore then murmureth the living man? Let him murmur at his own sin!^{Verse 40}Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah!^{Verse 41}Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens!^{Verse 42}We have transgressed; we have rebelled; thou hast not forgiven!^{Verse 43}Thou hast hidden thyself in anger, and hast pursued us; thou hast slain and hast not spared;^{Verse 44}Thou hast hidden thyself in a cloud, that our prayer may not pass through;^{Verse 45}Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the nations.^{Verse 46}All our enemies have opened their mouths against us;^{Verse 47}Terror and the pit have come upon us, desolation and destruction;^{Verse 48}Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.^{Verse 49}Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not, without any intermission,^{Verse 50}Until Jehovah look down and behold from heaven.^{Verse 51}Mine eye is painful to me on account of all the daughters of my city.^{Verse 52}They that are my enemies without cause hunt me down like a bird;^{Verse 53}They take away my life in the dungeon; they cast a stone upon me;^{Verse 54}Waters flow over my head; I say, “I am undone!”^{Verse 55}I call upon thy name, O Jehovah, from the deep dungeon;^{Verse 56}Hear thou my voice! hide not thine ear from my cry for relief!^{Verse 57}Be near to me, when I call upon thee! Say, “Fear not!”^{Verse 58}Thou maintainest my cause, O Lord; thou redeemest my life!^{Verse 59}Thou, O Jehovah, seest the wrong done to me; Maintain thou my cause!^{Verse 60}Thou seest all their vengeance, all their devices against me.^{Verse 61}Thou hearest their reproach, O Jehovah, all their devices against me,^{Verse 62}The words of my adversaries, and their machinations against me all the day long!^{Verse 63}Behold their sitting down and their rising up! I am their song.^{Verse 64}Render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands!^{Verse 65}Give them blindness of mind! thy curse be upon them!^{Verse 66}Pursue them in thine anger, and destroy them from under Jehovah's heaven!