engojps: Lamentations 3

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 [1] I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.  [2] He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.  [3] Surely against me He turneth His hand again and again all the day.  [4] My flesh and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.  [5] He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.  [6] He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.  [7] He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth; He hath made my chain heavy.  [8] Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.  [9] He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.  [10] He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.  [11] He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.  [12] He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.  [13] He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.  [14] I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.  [15] He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.  [16] He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.  [17] And my soul is removed far off from peace, I forgot prosperity.  [18] And I said: 'My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD.'  [19] Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.  [20] My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.  [21] This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.  [22] Surely the LORD'S mercies are not consumed, surely His compassions fail not.  [23] They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.  [24] 'The LORD is my portion', saith my soul; 'Therefore will I hope in Him.'  [25] The LORD is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.  [26] It is good that a man should quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.  [27] It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.  [28] Let him sit alone and keep silence, because He hath laid it upon him.  [29] Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.  [30] Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him, let him be filled full with reproach.  [31] For the Lord will not cast off for ever.  [32] For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.  [33] For He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.  [34] To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,  [35] To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,  [36] To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.  [37] Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?  [38] Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good?  [39] Wherefore doth a living man complain, a strong man because of his sins?  [40] Let us search and try our ways, and return to the LORD.  [41] Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.  [42] We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.  [43] Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.  [44] Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.  [45] Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.  [46] All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.  [47] Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.  [48] Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people.  [49] Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,  [50] Till the LORD look forth, and behold from heaven.  [51] Mine eye affected my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.  [52] They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies without cause.  [53] They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me.  [54] Waters flowed over my head; I said: 'I am cut off.'  [55] I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon.  [56] Thou heardest my voice; hide not Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.  [57] Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst: 'Fear not.'  [58] O Lord, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed my life.  [59] O LORD, Thou hast seen my wrong; judge Thou my cause.  [60] Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.  [61] Thou hast heard their taunt, O LORD, and all their devices against me;  [62] The lips of those that rose up against me, and their muttering against me all the day.  [63] Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.  [64] Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.  [65] Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, Thy curse unto them.  [66] Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

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