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Lamentations 3

¹I Am the man that hath seene affliction by the rod of his wrath.

²He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light.

³Surely against me is he turned, he turneth his hand against me all the day.

⁴My flesh and my skinne hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.

⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel.

⁶He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead of old.

⁷He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: hee hath made my chaine heauie.

⁸Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

⁹Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.

¹⁰He was vnto me as a Beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.

¹¹Hee hath turned aside my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: hee hath made me desolate.

¹²He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.

¹³Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.

¹⁴I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

¹⁵Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.

¹⁶He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.

¹⁷And thou hast remoued my soule farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie.

¹⁸And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

¹⁹Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall.

²⁰My soule hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

²¹This I recall to my mind, therefore haue I hope.

²²It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.

²³They are newe euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.

²⁴The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule, therefore will I hope in him.

²⁵The Lord is good vnto them that waite for him, to the soule that seeketh him.

²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the saluation of the Lord.

²⁷It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.

²⁸Hee sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because hee hath borne it vpon him.

²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

³⁰Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him, hee is filled full with reproch.

³¹For the Lord will not cast off for euer.

³²But though hee cause griefe, yet will hee haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

³³For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieue the children of men.

³⁴To crush vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,

³⁵To turne aside the right of a man before the face of the most high,

³⁶To subuert a man in his cause, the Lord approoueth not.

³⁷Who is hee that sayth, and it commeth to passe, when the Lord commandeth it not?

³⁸Out of the mouth of the most hie proceedeth not euill and good?

³⁹Wherefore doeth a liuing man complaine, a man for the punishment of his sinnes?

⁴⁰Let vs search and try our waies, and turne againe to the Lord.

⁴¹Let vs lift vp our heart with our hands vnto God in the heauens.

⁴²We haue transgressed, and haue rebelled, thou hast not pardoned.

⁴³Thou hast couered with anger, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine, thou hast not pitied.

⁴⁴Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloud, that our prayer should not passe through.

⁴⁵Thou hast made vs as the offscouring and refuse in the middest of the people.

⁴⁶All our enemies haue opened their mouthes against vs.

⁴⁷Feare and a snare is come vpon vs, desolation and destruction.

⁴⁸Mine eye runneth downe with riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹Mine eye trickleth downe and ceaseth not, without any intermission:

⁵⁰Till the Lord looke downe, and behold from heauen.

⁵¹Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵²Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause.

⁵³They haue cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.

⁵⁴Waters flowed ouer mine head, then I sayd, I am cut off.

⁵⁵I called vpon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

⁵⁶Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine eare at my breathing, at my crie.

⁵⁷Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saidst, Feare not.

⁵⁸O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soule, thou hast redeemed my life.

⁵⁹O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.

⁶⁰Thou hast seene all their vengeance; and all their imaginations against me.

⁶¹Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:

⁶²The lippes of those that rose vp against me, and their deuice against me all the day.

⁶³Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke.

⁶⁴Render vnto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the worke of their hands.

⁶⁵Giue them sorrow of heart, thy curse vnto them.

⁶⁶Persecute and destroy them in anger, from vnder the heauens of the Lord.