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