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CHAP. III.
1 The faithfull bewaile their calamities. 22 By the mercies of God they nourish their hope. 37 They acknowledge Gods iustice. 55 They pray for deliuerance, 64 and vengeance on their enemies.
1I Am the man that hath seene affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2He hath led me and brought mee into darkenesse, but not into light.
3Surely against me is he turned, he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4My flesh and my skinne hath he made old, he hath broken my bones.
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel.
6He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead of old.
7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: hee hath made my chaine heauie.
8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.
10He was vnto me as a Beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
11Hee hath turned aside my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: hee hath made me desolate.
12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a marke for the arrow.
13Hee hath caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.13
14I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.14
15Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.15
16He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.16
17And thou hast remoued my soule farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie.17
18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
19Remembring mine affliction and my miserie, the wormewood & the gall.19
20My soule hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.20
21This I recall to my mind, therefore haue I hope.21
22¶ It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
23They are newe euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.
24The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule, therefore will I hope in him.24
25The Lord is good vnto them that waite for him, to the soule that seeketh him.
26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the saluation of the Lord.
27It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.
28Hee sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because hee hath borne it vpon him.
29He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
30Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him, hee is filled full with reproch.
31For the Lord will not cast off for euer.
32But though hee cause griefe, yet will hee haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
33For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieue the children of men.33
34To crush vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,
35To turne aside the right of a man before the face of the most high,35
36To subuert a man in his cause, the Lord approoueth not.36
37¶ Who is hee that sayth, and it commeth to passe, when the Lord commandeth it not?37
38Out of the mouth of the most hie proceedeth not euill and good?38
39Wherefore doeth a liuing man complaine, a man for the punishment of his sinnes?39
40Let vs search and try our waies, and turne againe to the Lord.
41Let vs lift vp our heart with our hands vnto God in the heauens.
42We haue transgressed, and haue rebelled, thou hast not pardoned.
43Thou hast couered with anger, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine, thou hast not pitied.
44Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloud, that our prayer should not passe through.
45Thou hast made vs as the offscouring and refuse in the middest of the people.45
46All our enemies haue opened their mouthes against vs.
47Feare and a snare is come vpon vs, desolation and destruction.47
48Mine eye runneth downe with riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49Mine eye trickleth downe and ceaseth not, without any intermission:
50Till the Lord looke downe, and behold from heauen.
51Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.51
52Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause.
53They haue cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.
54Waters flowed ouer mine head, then I sayd, I am cut off.
55¶ I called vpon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
56Thou hast heard my voice, hide not thine eare at my breathing, at my crie.
57Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saidst, Feare not.
58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soule, thou hast redeemed my life.
59O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.
60Thou hast seene all their vengeance; and all their imaginations against me.
61Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:
62The lippes of those that rose vp against me, and their deuice against me all the day.
63Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke.
64¶ Render vnto them a recompense, O Lord, according to the worke of their hands.
65Giue them sorrow of heart, thy curse vnto them.65
66Persecute and destroy them in anger, from vnder the heauens of the Lord.66
Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Lamentations Chapter 3
13 Heb. sons.
14 Iere.20.7.
15 Heb. bitternesses.
16 Or, rolled me in the ashes.
17 Heb. good.
19 Or, remember.
20 Heb. bowed
21 Heb. make to returne to my heart.
24 Psal. 16.5. and 73.26. and 119.57. iere. 10.16.
33 Heb. from his heart.
35 Or, a superiour.
36 Or, seeth not.
37 Psal.33.9.
38 Amos 3.6
39 Or, murmure.
45 1.Cor.4.13.
47 Isai.24.17.
51 Heb. my soule. , Or, more then all.
65 Or, obstinacie of heart.
66 Psal.8.4.
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