Lamentations 3 — WBMS
3Verse 1I am a man seeing my poverty in the rod of his indignation.Verse 2He drove me, and brought into darknesses, and not into light.Verse 3Only he turned into me, and turned altogether his hand all day.Verse 4He made eld my skin, and my flesh; he all-brake my bones.Verse 5He builded in my compass, and he encompassed me with gall and travail.Verse 6He setted me in dark places, as everlasting dead men.Verse 7He builded about against me, that I go not out; he aggrieved my gyves or fetters.Verse 8But and when I cry and pray, he hath excluded my prayer.Verse 9He enclosed altogether my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths.Verse 10He is made like a bear setting ambush to me, like a lion in hid places.Verse 11He destroyed my paths, and brake me; he setted me desolate.Verse 12He bent his bow, and setted me as a sign to an arrow.Verse 13He sent in my reins the daughters of his arrow case.Verse 14I am made into scorn to all the people, the song of them all day.Verse 15He filled me with bitternesses; he greatly filled me with wormwood.Verse 16He brake at number my teeth; he fed me with ashes.Verse 17And my soul is put away; I have forgotten goods.Verse 18And I said, Mine end perished, and mine hope, from the Lord.Verse 19Have thou mind on my poverty, and going over, and on wormwood and gall.Verse 20By mind I shall be mindful; and my soul shall fail in me.Verse 21I bethink these things in mine heart, I shall hope in God.Verse 22The mercies of the Lord be many, for we be not wasted; for why his merciful doings failed not.Verse 23I knew in the morrowtide; thy faith is much [or much is thy faith].Verse 24My soul said, The Lord is my part; therefore I shall abide him.Verse 25The Lord is good to them that hope into him, to a soul seeking him.Verse 26It is good to abide with stillness the health of God.Verse 27It is good to a man, when he hath borne the yoke of his youth.Verse 28He shall sit alone, and he shall be still; for he raised himself above himself.Verse 29He shall set his mouth in dust, if peradventure hope is.Verse 30He shall give the cheek to a man that smiteth him; he shall be filled with shames.Verse 31For the Lord shall not put away without end.Verse 32For if he casted away, and he shall do mercy after the multitude of his mercies.Verse 33For he maked not low of his heart; and casted not away the sons of men.Verse 34That he should all-foul under his feet all the bound men of [the] earth.Verse 35That he should bow down the doom of a man, in the sight of the cheer of the Highest.Verse 36That he should pervert a man in his doom, the Lord knew not.Verse 37Who is this that said, that a thing should be done, when the Lord commandeth not?Verse 38Neither goods neither evils shall go out of the mouth of the Highest.Verse 39What grutched a man living, a man punished for his sins?Verse 40Search we our ways, and seek we, and turn we again to the Lord.Verse 41Raise we our hearts with hands, to the Lord into heavens.Verse 42We have done wickedly, and have stirred thee to wrath; therefore thou art not able to be prayed.Verse 43Thou coveredest in strong venge-ance, and smitedest us; thou killedest, and sparedest not.Verse 44Thou settedest a cloud to thee, that prayer pass not.Verse 45Thou settedest me, drawing up by the root, and casting out, in the midst of [the] peoples.Verse 46All [the] enemies opened their mouth on us.Verse 47Inward dread and snare is made to us, prophecy and defouling.Verse 48Mine eyes led down partings of waters, for the defouling of the daughter of my people.Verse 49Mine eye was tormented, and was not still; for no rest was.Verse 50Until the Lord beheld, and saw from heavens.Verse 51Mine eye robbed my soul in all the daughters of my city.Verse 52Mine enemies took me without cause, by hunting me as a bird.Verse 53My life slid into a pit; and they putted a stone on me.Verse 54Waters flowed over mine head; I said, I perish.Verse 55Lord, I called to help thy name, from the last pit.Verse 56Thou heardest my voice; turn thou not away thine ear from my sobbing and cries.Verse 57Thou nighedest to me in the day, wherein I called thee to help; thou saidest, Dread thou not.Verse 58Lord, again-buyer of my life, thou deemedest the cause of my soul.Verse 59Lord, thou sawest the wickedness of them against me; deem thou my doom.Verse 60Thou sawest all the strong vengeance, all the thoughts of them against me.Verse 61Lord, thou heardest the shames of them; all the thoughts of them against me.Verse 62The lips of men rising against me, and the thoughts of them against me all day.Verse 63See thou the sitting and rising again of them; I am the psalm of them.Verse 64Lord, thou shalt yield while to them, by the works of their hands.Verse 65Thou shalt give to them the shield of heart, thy travail.Verse 66Lord, thou shalt pursue them in thy strong vengeance, and thou shalt defoul them under heavens.