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New American Standard Bible 1995

Lamentations 3:1-36

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 1011chain 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.21This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have 33hope.22The Lord’s 34lovingkindnesses 35indeed never cease, 36For His compassions never fail.23They are new 37every morning; Great is 38Your faithfulness.24“The Lord is my 39portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I 40have hope in Him.”25The Lord is good to those who 41wait for Him, To the 42person who 43seeks Him.26It is good that he 44waits silently For the salvation of the Lord.27It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.28Let him 45sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him.29Let him 46put his mouth in the 47dust, Perhaps there is 48hope.30Let him give his 49cheek to 50the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.31For the Lord will 51not reject forever,32For if He causes grief, Then He will have 52compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.33For He 53does not afflict 54willingly Or grieve the sons of men.34To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the 55land,35To 56deprive a man of 57justice In the presence of the Most High,36To 5859defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not 60approve.

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Notes

  1. 1. Lamentations 3:1 Ps 88:7, 15, 16 ↩
  2. 2. Lamentations 3:2 Job 30:26; Is 59:9; Jer 4:23 ↩
  3. 3. Lamentations 3:3 Ps 38:2; Is 5:25 ↩
  4. 4. Lamentations 3:4 Ps 31:9, 10; 38:2-8; 102:3-5 ↩
  5. 5. Lamentations 3:4 Ps 51:8; Is 38:13 ↩
  6. 6. Lamentations 3:5 Job 19:8 ↩
  7. 7. Lamentations 3:5 Jer 23:15; Lam 3:19 ↩
  8. 8. Lamentations 3:6 Ps 88:5, 6; 143:3 ↩
  9. 9. Lamentations 3:7 Job 3:23; 19:8 ↩
  10. 10. Lamentations 3:7 Lit bronze piece ↩
  11. 11. Lamentations 3:7 Jer 40:4 ↩
  12. 12. Lamentations 3:8 Job 30:20; Ps 22:2 ↩
  13. 13. Lamentations 3:9 Is 63:17; Hos 2:6 ↩
  14. 14. Lamentations 3:11 Job 16:12, 13; Jer 15:3; Hos 6:1 ↩
  15. 15. Lamentations 3:12 Ps 7:12; Lam 2:4 ↩
  16. 16. Lamentations 3:12 Job 6:4; 7:20; Ps 38:2 ↩
  17. 17. Lamentations 3:13 Lit sons ↩
  18. 18. Lamentations 3:13 Jer 5:16 ↩
  19. 19. Lamentations 3:13 Lit kidneys ↩
  20. 20. Lamentations 3:14 Ps 22:6, 7; 123:4; Jer 20:7 ↩
  21. 21. Lamentations 3:14 Job 30:9; Lam 3:63 ↩
  22. 22. Lamentations 3:15 Jer 9:15 ↩
  23. 23. Lamentations 3:16 Ps 3:7; 58:6 ↩
  24. 24. Lamentations 3:16 Prov 20:17 ↩
  25. 25. Lamentations 3:16 Jer 6:26 ↩
  26. 26. Lamentations 3:17 Is 59:11; Jer 12:12 ↩
  27. 27. Lamentations 3:17 Lit good ↩
  28. 28. Lamentations 3:18 Job 17:15; Ezek 37:11 ↩
  29. 29. Lamentations 3:19 Or bitterness ↩
  30. 30. Lamentations 3:19 Jer 9:15; Lam 3:5, 15 ↩
  31. 31. Lamentations 3:20 Job 21:6 ↩
  32. 32. Lamentations 3:20 Ps 42:5, 6, 11; 43:5; 44:25 ↩
  33. 33. Lamentations 3:21 Ps 130:7 ↩
  34. 34. Lamentations 3:22 Ps 78:38; Jer 3:12; 30:11 ↩
  35. 35. Lamentations 3:22 Or that we are not consumed ↩
  36. 36. Lamentations 3:22 Mal 3:6 ↩
  37. 37. Lamentations 3:23 Is 33:2; Zeph 3:5 ↩
  38. 38. Lamentations 3:23 Heb 10:23 ↩
  39. 39. Lamentations 3:24 Ps 16:5; 73:26 ↩
  40. 40. Lamentations 3:24 Ps 33:18 ↩
  41. 41. Lamentations 3:25 Ps 27:14; Is 25:9 ↩
  42. 42. Lamentations 3:25 Lit soul ↩
  43. 43. Lamentations 3:25 Is 26:9 ↩
  44. 44. Lamentations 3:26 Ps 37:7 ↩
  45. 45. Lamentations 3:28 Jer 15:17 ↩
  46. 46. Lamentations 3:29 Lit give ↩
  47. 47. Lamentations 3:29 Job 16:15; 40:4 ↩
  48. 48. Lamentations 3:29 Jer 31:17 ↩
  49. 49. Lamentations 3:30 Job 16:10; Is 50:6 ↩
  50. 50. Lamentations 3:30 Lit his ↩
  51. 51. Lamentations 3:31 Ps 77:7; 94:14; Is 54:7-10 ↩
  52. 52. Lamentations 3:32 Ps 78:38; 106:43-45; Hos 11:8 ↩
  53. 53. Lamentations 3:33 Ps 119:67, 71, 75; Ezek 33:11; Heb 12:10 ↩
  54. 54. Lamentations 3:33 Lit from His heart ↩
  55. 55. Lamentations 3:34 Or earth ↩
  56. 56. Lamentations 3:35 Or turn aside a man’s case ↩
  57. 57. Lamentations 3:35 Ps 140:12; Prov 17:15 ↩
  58. 58. Lamentations 3:36 Lit make crooked ↩
  59. 59. Lamentations 3:36 Jer 22:3; Hab 1:13 ↩
  60. 60. Lamentations 3:36 Lit see ↩

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