Lamentations 3 — ILT
3Verse 1I am the man who hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.Verse 2Me hath he driven out, and led into darkness, but not into light.Verse 3Surely against me doth he turn again and again his hand all the day.Verse 4He hath caused my flesh and my skin to wear out, he hath broken my bones.Verse 5He hath built around me, and encompassed me with poison and hardship.Verse 6In dark places hath he set me to dwell, like the dead of olden times.Verse 7He hath placed a fence round about me, that I cannot get out; he hath made heavy my chain.Verse 8Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, he shutteth out my prayer.Verse 9He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, my paths hath he made crooked.Verse 10A bear lying in wait is he to me, a lion in secret places.Verse 11On my ways hath he placed thorns, and torn me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.Verse 12He hath bent his bow, and placed me as a mark for the arrow.Verse 13He hath caused to enter into my reins the children of his quiver.Verse 14I am become a laughing-stock to all my people, their [jeering] song all the day.Verse 15He hath sated me with bitter things, 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 my soul hath given up all thoughts of peace: I forget happiness.Verse 18And I said, Lost is my strength, my expectation also from the Lord.Verse 19Remembering my affliction and [the cause of] my complaint, wormwood and poison.Verse 20Remembering [this] continually my soul is bowed down deeply within me.Verse 21[Yet] this answer will I give to my heart: therefore will I wait [in confidence].Verse 22It is through the Lord's kindness that we are not consumed, because his mercies have no end;Verse 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.Verse 24The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I wait for him.Verse 25The Lord is good unto those that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.Verse 26It is good that one should wait and this in silence for the salvation of the Lord.Verse 27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth;Verse 28That he sit in solitude and be silent; because He hath laid it upon him;Verse 29That he put his mouth in the dust; perhaps there still is hope;Verse 30That he offer his cheek to him that smiteth him; that he be satisfied with reproach.Verse 31For the Lord will not cast off for ever;Verse 32But though he have caused grief, yet will he have mercy according to the abundance of his kindnesses.Verse 33For he doth not afflict of his own will, and aggrieve the children of men.Verse 34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,Verse 35To pervert the justice [due to man] before the face of the Most High.Verse 36To subvert a man in his contest—should the Lord not see this?Verse 37Who is he that saith aught, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord hath not ordained it?Verse 38Do not out of the mouth of the Most High come both the evil things and the good?Verse 39Wherefore should a living man complain? let every man complain because of his sins.Verse 40Let us search through and investigate our ways, and let us return to the Lord.Verse 41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.Verse 42We have indeed transgressed and rebelled: thou hast truly not pardoned.Verse 43Thou hast covered [us] with thy anger, and made pursuit after us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.Verse 44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that no prayer should pass through.Verse 45As something loathsome and rejected hast thou rendered us in the midst of the people.Verse 46Wide have all our enemies opened against us their mouth.Verse 47Terror and a snare are come upon us, [with] desolation and breaches.Verse 48With streams of water runneth my eye down, because of the breach of the daughter of my people.Verse 49My eye trickleth down, and resteth not, without any intermission,Verse 50Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.Verse 51My eye affecteth my soul because of all the daughters of my city.Verse 52Those who are my enemies, without a cause, have chased me about like a bird.Verse 53They have shut up in the dungeon my life, and have cast stones upon me.Verse 54Waters streamed over my head: I said, I am cut off.Verse 55I called on thy name, O Lord, out of the dungeon of the lowest depth.Verse 56Thou didst hear my voice: hide not thy ear to give me enlargement at my cry.Verse 57Thou wast ever near on the day that I called on thee: thou saidst, Fear not.Verse 58Thou didst plead, O Lord, the causes of my soul: thou didst [before this] redeem my life.Verse 59Thou hast [now] seen, O Lord, the wrong I suffer: judge thou my cause.Verse 60Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their plans against me.Verse 61Thou hast heard their reviling, O Lord, all their plans against me,Verse 62The speeches of these that rise up against me, and their device against me all the day.Verse 63Oh look upon their sitting down, and their rising up: I am their [jeering] song.Verse 64Render unto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.Verse 65Give them confusion of heart, thy curse he upon them.Verse 66Pursue them in anger and destroy from under the heavens of the Lord.