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Lamentations 2

## The Lamentations of Jeremiah

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| # Chapter 3
#### 1 | I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
#### 2 | He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
#### 3 | Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
#### 4 | My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
#### 5 | He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
#### 6 | He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
#### 7 | He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
#### 8 | Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
#### 9 | He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
#### 10 | He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
#### 11 | He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
#### 12 | He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
#### 13 | He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
#### 14 | I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
#### 15 | He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
#### 16 | He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.
#### 17 | And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
#### 18 | And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
#### 19 | Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
#### 20 | My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
#### 21 | This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
#### 22 | [It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
#### 23 | They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
#### 24 | Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
#### 25 | Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
#### 26 | It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
#### 27 | It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
#### 28 | Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.
#### 29 | Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
#### 30 | Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
#### 31 | For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
#### 32 | For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
#### 33 | For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
#### 34 | To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
#### 35 | To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
#### 36 | To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
#### 37 | Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
#### 38 | Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
#### 39 | Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
#### 40 | Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
#### 41 | Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
#### 42 | We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
#### 43 | Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
#### 44 | Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
#### 45 | Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
#### 46 | All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
#### 47 | Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
#### 48 | Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
#### 49 | Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
#### 50 | Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
#### 51 | Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
#### 52 | They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
#### 53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
#### 54 | Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
#### 55 | I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
#### 56 | Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
#### 57 | Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
#### 58 | O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
#### 59 | O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.
#### 60 | Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
#### 61 | Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
#### 62 | The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
#### 63 | Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
#### 64 | Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
#### 65 | Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
#### 66 | Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

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