The Lamentations of Jeremiah

chapter 3


Chapters:

1 2 3 4 5


verse #1

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.


verse #2

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.


verse #3

Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.


verse #4

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.


verse #5

He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.


verse #6

He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.


verse #7

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.


verse #8

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.


verse #9

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.


verse #10

He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.


verse #11

He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.


verse #12

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.


verse #13

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.


verse #14

I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.


verse #15

He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.


verse #16

He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.


verse #17

You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.


verse #18

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”


verse #19

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.


verse #20

My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.


verse #21

This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.


verse #22

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.


verse #23

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.


verse #24

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”


verse #25

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.


verse #26

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.


verse #27

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.


verse #28

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.


verse #29

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.


verse #30

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.


verse #31

For the Lord will not cast off forever.


verse #32

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.


verse #33

For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.


verse #34

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,


verse #35

to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,


verse #36

to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.


verse #37

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?


verse #38

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?


verse #39

Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?


verse #40

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.


verse #41

Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.


verse #42

“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.


verse #43

“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.


verse #44

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.


verse #45

You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.


verse #46

“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.


verse #47

Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”


verse #48

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.


verse #49

My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,


verse #50

until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.


verse #51

My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.


verse #52

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.


verse #53

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.


verse #54

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”


verse #55

I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.


verse #56

You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”


verse #57

You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”


verse #58

Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.


verse #59

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.


verse #60

You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.


verse #61

You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,


verse #62

the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.


verse #63

You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.


verse #64

You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.


verse #65

You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.


verse #66

You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

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