New American Standard Bible 1995

Lamentations 3:1-20

1I am the man who has 1seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.2He has driven me and made me walk In 2darkness and not in light.3Surely against me He has 3turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.4He has caused my 4flesh and my skin to waste away, He has 5broken my bones.5He has 6besieged and encompassed me with 7bitterness and hardship.6In 8dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.7He has 9walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my 10 11chain heavy.8Even when I cry out and call for help, He 12shuts out my prayer.9He has 13blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.10He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.11He has turned aside my ways and 14torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.12He 15bent His bow And 16set me as a target for the arrow.13He made the 17arrows of His 18quiver To enter into my 19inward parts.14I have become a 20laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking 21song all the day.15He has 22filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.16He has 23broken my teeth with 24gravel; He has made me cower in the 25dust.17My soul has been rejected 26from peace; I have forgotten 27happiness.18So I say, “My strength has perished, And so has my 28hope from the Lord.”

19Remember my affliction and my 29wandering, the 30wormwood and bitterness.20Surely 31my soul remembers And is 32bowed down within me.

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Notes

1. Lamentations 3:1 Ps 88:7, 15, 16 ↩
2. Lamentations 3:2 Job 30:26; Is 59:9; Jer 4:23 ↩
3. Lamentations 3:3 Ps 38:2; Is 5:25 ↩
4. Lamentations 3:4 Ps 31:9, 10; 38:2-8; 102:3-5 ↩
5. Lamentations 3:4 Ps 51:8; Is 38:13 ↩
6. Lamentations 3:5 Job 19:8 ↩
7. Lamentations 3:5 Jer 23:15; Lam 3:19 ↩
8. Lamentations 3:6 Ps 88:5, 6; 143:3 ↩
9. Lamentations 3:7 Job 3:23; 19:8 ↩
10. Lamentations 3:7 Lit bronze piece ↩
11. Lamentations 3:7 Jer 40:4 ↩
12. Lamentations 3:8 Job 30:20; Ps 22:2 ↩
13. Lamentations 3:9 Is 63:17; Hos 2:6 ↩
14. Lamentations 3:11 Job 16:12, 13; Jer 15:3; Hos 6:1 ↩
15. Lamentations 3:12 Ps 7:12; Lam 2:4 ↩
16. Lamentations 3:12 Job 6:4; 7:20; Ps 38:2 ↩
17. Lamentations 3:13 Lit sons ↩
18. Lamentations 3:13 Jer 5:16 ↩
19. Lamentations 3:13 Lit kidneys ↩
20. Lamentations 3:14 Ps 22:6, 7; 123:4; Jer 20:7 ↩
21. Lamentations 3:14 Job 30:9; Lam 3:63 ↩
22. Lamentations 3:15 Jer 9:15 ↩
23. Lamentations 3:16 Ps 3:7; 58:6 ↩
24. Lamentations 3:16 Prov 20:17 ↩
25. Lamentations 3:16 Jer 6:26 ↩
26. Lamentations 3:17 Is 59:11; Jer 12:12 ↩
27. Lamentations 3:17 Lit good ↩
28. Lamentations 3:18 Job 17:15; Ezek 37:11 ↩
29. Lamentations 3:19 Or bitterness ↩
30. Lamentations 3:19 Jer 9:15; Lam 3:5, 15 ↩
31. Lamentations 3:20 Job 21:6 ↩
32. Lamentations 3:20 Ps 42:5, 6, 11; 43:5; 44:25 ↩

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