King James Version

Lamentations 3

Lamentations in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Lamentations 3:1

I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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Open Lamentations 3:2

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
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Open Lamentations 3:3

Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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Open Lamentations 3:4

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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Open Lamentations 3:5

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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Open Lamentations 3:6

He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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Open Lamentations 3:7

He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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Open Lamentations 3:8

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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Open Lamentations 3:9

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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Open Lamentations 3:10

He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
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Open Lamentations 3:11

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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Open Lamentations 3:12

He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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Open Lamentations 3:13

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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Open Lamentations 3:14

I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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Open Lamentations 3:15

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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Open Lamentations 3:16

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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Open Lamentations 3:17

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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Open Lamentations 3:18

And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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Open Lamentations 3:19

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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Open Lamentations 3:20

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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Open Lamentations 3:21

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
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Open Lamentations 3:22

It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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Open Lamentations 3:23

They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
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Open Lamentations 3:24

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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Open Lamentations 3:25

The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
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Open Lamentations 3:26

It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
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Open Lamentations 3:27

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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Open Lamentations 3:28

He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
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Open Lamentations 3:29

He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
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Open Lamentations 3:30

He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
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Open Lamentations 3:31

For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
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Open Lamentations 3:32

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
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Open Lamentations 3:33

For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
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Open Lamentations 3:34

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
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Open Lamentations 3:35

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
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Open Lamentations 3:36

To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
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Open Lamentations 3:37

Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
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Open Lamentations 3:38

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
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Open Lamentations 3:39

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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Open Lamentations 3:40

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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Open Lamentations 3:41

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
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Open Lamentations 3:42

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
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Open Lamentations 3:43

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
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Open Lamentations 3:44

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
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Open Lamentations 3:45

Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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Open Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
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Open Lamentations 3:47

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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Open Lamentations 3:48

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Open Lamentations 3:49

Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
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Open Lamentations 3:50

Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
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Open Lamentations 3:51

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
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Open Lamentations 3:52

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
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Open Lamentations 3:53

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
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Open Lamentations 3:54

Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
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Open Lamentations 3:55

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
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Open Lamentations 3:56

Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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Open Lamentations 3:57

Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
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Open Lamentations 3:58

O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
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Open Lamentations 3:59

O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
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Open Lamentations 3:60

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
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Open Lamentations 3:61

Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
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Open Lamentations 3:62

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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Open Lamentations 3:63

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
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Open Lamentations 3:64

Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
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Open Lamentations 3:65

Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
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Open Lamentations 3:66

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

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