New American Standard Bible 2020
Lamentations 3:4-18
4He has consumed my 1flesh and my skin, He has 2broken my bones.5He has 34besieged and surrounded me with 56bitterness and hardship.6He has made me live in 7dark places, Like those who have long been dead.7He has 8walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my 910chain heavy.8Even when I cry out and call for help, He 11shuts out my prayer.9He has 12blocked my ways with cut stone; He has twisted my paths.10He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.11He has made my ways deviate, and 13torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.12He 14bent His bow And 15took aim at me as a target for the arrow.13He made the 16arrows of His 17quiver Enter my 18inward parts.14I have become a 19laughingstock to all my people, Their 20song of ridicule all the day.15He has 21filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink plenty of wormwood.16He has also 22made my teeth grind with 23gravel; He has made me cower in the 24dust.17My soul has been excluded 25from peace; I have forgotten 26happiness.18So I say, “My 27strength has failed, And so has my 28hope from the Lord.”
Notes
- 1. Lamentations 3:4 Ps 31:9, 10; 38:2-8; 102:3-5 ↩
- 2. Lamentations 3:4 Ps 51:8; Is 38:13 ↩
- 3. Lamentations 3:5 Lit built against ↩
- 4. Lamentations 3:5 Job 19:8 ↩
- 5. Lamentations 3:5 Lit poison ↩
- 6. Lamentations 3:5 Jer 23:15; Lam 3:19 ↩
- 7. Lamentations 3:6 Ps 88:5, 6; 143:3 ↩
- 8. Lamentations 3:7 Job 3:23; 19:8 ↩
- 9. Lamentations 3:7 Lit bronze piece ↩
- 10. Lamentations 3:7 Jer 40:4 ↩
- 11. Lamentations 3:8 Job 30:20; Ps 22:2 ↩
- 12. Lamentations 3:9 Is 63:17; Hos 2:6 ↩
- 13. Lamentations 3:11 Job 16:12, 13; Jer 15:3; Hos 6:1 ↩
- 14. Lamentations 3:12 Ps 7:12; Lam 2:4 ↩
- 15. Lamentations 3:12 Job 6:4; 7:20; Ps 38:2 ↩
- 16. Lamentations 3:13 Lit sons ↩
- 17. Lamentations 3:13 Jer 5:16 ↩
- 18. Lamentations 3:13 Lit kidneys ↩
- 19. Lamentations 3:14 Ps 22:6, 7; 123:4; Jer 20:7 ↩
- 20. Lamentations 3:14 Job 30:9; Lam 3:63 ↩
- 21. Lamentations 3:15 Jer 9:15 ↩
- 22. Lamentations 3:16 Ps 3:7; 58:6 ↩
- 23. Lamentations 3:16 Prov 20:17 ↩
- 24. Lamentations 3:16 Jer 6:26 ↩
- 25. Lamentations 3:17 Is 59:11; Jer 12:12 ↩
- 26. Lamentations 3:17 Lit good ↩
- 27. Lamentations 3:18 Or splendor ↩
- 28. Lamentations 3:18 Job 17:15; Ezek 37:11 ↩
Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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