Book of Lamentations - Chapter 3 (KJV)

Book of Lamentations - Chapter 3 (KJV)

Book of Lamentations - Chapter 3 (KJV)
Bible Chapter


¹I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
²He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
³Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
⁴My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken my bones.
⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
⁶He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
⁷He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
⁸Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
⁹He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
¹⁰He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
¹¹He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
¹²He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
¹³He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
¹⁴I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
¹⁶He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
¹⁷And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
¹⁸And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD
¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
²⁰My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
²¹This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
²²It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
²⁴The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
²⁵The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
²⁸He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
³⁰He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
³¹For the Lord will not cast off for ever
³²But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
³³For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
³⁴To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
³⁵To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
³⁶To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
³⁷Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
⁴²We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
⁴³Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
⁴⁴Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
⁴⁵Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
⁴⁶All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
⁴⁷Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
⁴⁸Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
⁴⁹Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
⁵⁰Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
⁵¹Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
⁵²Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
⁵³They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
⁵⁴Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
⁵⁵I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
⁵⁶Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
⁵⁷Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
⁵⁸O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
⁵⁹O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
⁶⁰Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
⁶¹Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
⁶²The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
⁶³Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
⁶⁴Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
⁶⁵Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
⁶⁶Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.