The Lamentations of Jeremiah
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I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
verso 3
Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
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He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
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He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
verso 6
He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
verso 7
He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
verso 8
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
verso 9
He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
verso 10
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
verso 11
He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
verso 12
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
verso 13
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
verso 14
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
verso 15
He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
verso 16
He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
verso 17
You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
verso 18
I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
verso 19
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
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My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
verso 21
This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
verso 22
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
verso 23
They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
verso 24
“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
verso 25
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
verso 26
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
verso 27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
verso 28
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
verso 29
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
verso 30
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
verso 31
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
verso 32
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
verso 33
For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
verso 34
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
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to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
verso 36
to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
verso 37
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
verso 38
Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
verso 39
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
verso 40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
verso 41
Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
verso 42
“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
verso 43
“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
verso 44
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
verso 45
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
verso 46
“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
verso 47
Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
verso 48
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
verso 49
My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,
verso 50
until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.
verso 51
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
verso 52
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
verso 53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
verso 54
Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
verso 55
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
verso 56
You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
verso 57
You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
verso 58
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
verso 59
Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
verso 60
You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
verso 61
You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,
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the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
verso 63
You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
verso 64
You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
verso 65
You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
verso 66
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
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