Lamentations Chapter 3 (NASB)
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I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.
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He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
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Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.
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He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.
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He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
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In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.
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He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.
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Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
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He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
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He is to me like a bear lying in wait, [Like] a lion in secret places.
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He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
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He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.
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He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.
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I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their [mocking] song all the day.
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He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.
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He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
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My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.
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So I say, 'My strength has perished, And [so has] my hope from the LORD.'
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Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
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Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me.
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This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
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The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.
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[They] are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
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'The LORD is my portion,' says my soul, 'Therefore I have hope in Him.'
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The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
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[It is] good that he waits silently For the salvation of the LORD.
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[It is] good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.
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Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid [it] on him.
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Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope.
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Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.
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For the Lord will not reject forever,
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For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.
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For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men.
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To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,
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To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High,
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To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve.
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Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded [it]?
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[Is it] not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth?
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Why should [any] living mortal, or [any] man, Offer complaint in view of his sins?
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Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.
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We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven;
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We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned.
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You have covered [Yourself] with anger And pursued us; You have slain [and] have not spared.
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You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.
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[You have made us mere] offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
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All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
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Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;
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My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping,
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Until the LORD looks down And sees from heaven.
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My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
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My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird;
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They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me.
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Waters flowed over my head; I said, 'I am cut off!'
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I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.
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You have heard my voice, 'Do not hide Your ear from my [prayer for] relief, From my cry for help.'
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You drew near when I called on You; You said, 'Do not fear!'
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O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life.
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O LORD, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.
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You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
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You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me.
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The lips of my assailants and their whispering [Are] against me all day long.
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Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
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You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.
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You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them.
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You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD!
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