### Darby's English Translation

Lamentations 2

## The Lamentations of Jeremiah

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| # Chapter 3
| I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
| Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.
| Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.
| My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.
| He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.
| He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.
| He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
| Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
| He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
| He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.
| He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
| He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
| He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
| I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
| He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
| He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
| And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.
| And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
| Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
| My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
| -- This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
| It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
| they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
| Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
| Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
| It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.
| It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:
| He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;
| he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;
| he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.
| For the Lord will not cast off for ever;
| but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:
| for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
| To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
| to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
| to wrong a man in his cause, -- will not the Lord see it?
| Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
| Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
| Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
| Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
| Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto łGod in the heavens.
| We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
| Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.
| Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.
| Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
| All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
| Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
| Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
| Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
| till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
| Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
| They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
| They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.
| Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
| I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.
| Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
| Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.
| Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.
| Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
| Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.
| Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;
| the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.
| Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.
| Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;
| give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;
| pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

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