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