### Noah Webster Bible

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.
| He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
| Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
| My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
| He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and labor.
| He hath set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old.
| He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
| Also 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 was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as 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 was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
| He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken 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 forgat prosperity.
| And I said, My strength and my hope hath perished from the LORD:
| Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
| My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
| This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
| It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
| They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
| The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
| The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
| It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
| It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.
| He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
| He putteth his mouth in the dust; if 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 though he causeth grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
| For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
| To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
| To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
| To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
| Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
| Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
| Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
| Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
| Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
| We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
| Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
| Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
| Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
| All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
| Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
| My eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
| My eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
| Till the LORD shall look down, and behold from heaven.
| My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
| My enemies chased me fiercely, like a bird without cause.
| They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
| Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
| I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
| Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thy ear at my breathing, at my cry.
| Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
| O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
| O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
| Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
| Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
| The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
| Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
| Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
| Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse to them.
| Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

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