### World English Bible

Lamentations 2

## The Lamentations of Jeremiah

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| # Chapter 3
#### 1 | I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
#### 2 | He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
#### 3 | Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
#### 4 | My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
#### 5 | He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
#### 6 | He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
#### 7 | He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
#### 8 | Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
#### 9 | He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
#### 10 | He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
#### 11 | He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
#### 12 | He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
#### 13 | He has 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 has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
#### 16 | He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
#### 17 | You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
#### 18 | I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
#### 19 | Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
#### 20 | My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
#### 21 | This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
#### 22 | [It is of] Yahweh's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
#### 23 | They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
#### 24 | Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
#### 25 | Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
#### 26 | It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
#### 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 has laid it on 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 who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.
#### 31 | For the Lord will not cast off forever.
#### 32 | For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
#### 33 | For he does 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 doesn't approve.
#### 37 | Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
#### 38 | Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
#### 39 | Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
#### 40 | Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
#### 41 | Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
#### 42 | We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.
#### 43 | You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.
#### 44 | You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
#### 45 | You have 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 on us, devastation and destruction.
#### 48 | My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
#### 49 | My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
#### 50 | Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven.
#### 51 | My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
#### 52 | They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
#### 53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
#### 54 | Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
#### 55 | I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
#### 56 | You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
#### 57 | You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid.
#### 58 | Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
#### 59 | Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause.
#### 60 | You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
#### 61 | You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, 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 | See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
#### 64 | You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
#### 65 | You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
#### 66 | You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

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