Lamentations

Chapter 3

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¹I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.1 sermon²He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.1 sermon³Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.1 sermon⁴My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.1 sermon⁵He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.1 sermon⁶He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.1 sermon⁷He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.1 sermon⁸Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.1 sermon⁹He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.1 sermon¹⁰He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.1 sermon¹¹He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.1 sermon¹²He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.1 sermon¹³He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.1 sermon¹⁴I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.1 sermon¹⁵He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.1 sermon¹⁶He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.1 sermon¹⁷And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.1 sermon¹⁸And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:1 sermon¹⁹Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.2 sermons²⁰My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.2 sermons²¹This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.3 sermons²²It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.21 sermons²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.22 sermons²⁴The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.3 sermons²⁵The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.2 sermons²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.5 sermons²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.1 sermon²⁸He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.1 sermon²⁹He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.1 sermon³⁰He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.1 sermon³¹For the Lord will not cast off for ever:1 sermon³²But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.1 sermon³³For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.1 sermon³⁴To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,1 sermon³⁵To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,1 sermon³⁶To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.1 sermon³⁷Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?1 sermon³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?1 sermon³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?1 sermon⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.1 sermon⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.1 sermon⁴²We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.1 sermon⁴³Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.1 sermon⁴⁴Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.1 sermon⁴⁵Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.1 sermon⁴⁶All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.1 sermon⁴⁷Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.1 sermon⁴⁸Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.1 sermon⁴⁹Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,1 sermon⁵⁰Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.1 sermon⁵¹Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.3 sermons⁵²Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.1 sermon⁵³They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.1 sermon⁵⁴Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.1 sermon⁵⁵I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.1 sermon⁵⁶Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.1 sermon⁵⁷Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.1 sermon⁵⁸O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.2 sermons⁵⁹O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.1 sermon⁶⁰Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.1 sermon⁶¹Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;1 sermon⁶²The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.1 sermon⁶³Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.1 sermon⁶⁴Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.1 sermon⁶⁵Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.1 sermon⁶⁶Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.1 sermon