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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Lamentations 3 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/lamentations/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/lamentations/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > Lamentations 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../lamentations/2.htm" title="Lamentations 2">◄</a> Lamentations 3 <a href="../lamentations/4.htm" title="Lamentations 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/lamentations/3.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div>Jeremiah’s Heavy Chain<div align="center">Aleph</div><CC><a href="/lamentations/3-1.htm">1</a>I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath. <a href="/lamentations/3-2.htm">2</a>He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. <a href="/lamentations/3-3.htm">3</a>Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day. <div align="center">Beth</div><a href="/lamentations/3-4.htm">4</a>He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away; He has broken my bones. <a href="/lamentations/3-5.htm">5</a>He has besieged and encompassed me with gall and hardship. <a href="/lamentations/3-6.htm">6</a>Dark places He has made me inhabit, Like those who have long been dead. <div align="center">Gimel</div><a href="/lamentations/3-7.htm">7</a>He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my <a href="#fn">[†]</a>chain heavy. <a href="/lamentations/3-8.htm">8</a>Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer. <a href="/lamentations/3-9.htm">9</a>He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked. <div align="center">Daleth</div><a href="/lamentations/3-10.htm">10</a>He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places. <a href="/lamentations/3-11.htm">11</a>He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate. <a href="/lamentations/3-12.htm">12</a>He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow. <div align="center">He</div><a href="/lamentations/3-13.htm">13</a>He made the <a href="#fn">[†]</a>arrows of His quiver To enter into my <a href="#fn">[†]</a>inward parts. <a href="/lamentations/3-14.htm">14</a>I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their music of mockery all the day. <a href="/lamentations/3-15.htm">15</a>He has saturated me with bitterness; He has sated me with wormwood. <div align="center">Vav</div><a href="/lamentations/3-16.htm">16</a>He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust. <a href="/lamentations/3-17.htm">17</a>My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten goodness. <a href="/lamentations/3-18.htm">18</a>So I say, “My strength has perished, As well as my hopeful waiting which comes from Yahweh.” The Lord Will Not Reject Forever<div align="center">Zayin</div><a href="/lamentations/3-19.htm">19</a>Remember my affliction and my <a href="#fn">[†]</a>homelessness, the wormwood and gall. <a href="/lamentations/3-20.htm">20</a>Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me. <a href="/lamentations/3-21.htm">21</a>This I will return to my heart; Therefore I will wait in hope. <div align="center">Heth</div><a href="/lamentations/3-22.htm">22</a>The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh <a href="#fn">[†]</a>indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. <a href="/lamentations/3-23.htm">23</a>They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. <a href="/lamentations/3-24.htm">24</a>“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I wait for Him.” <div align="center">Teth</div><a href="/lamentations/3-25.htm">25</a>Yahweh is good to those who hope in Him, To the soul who seeks Him. <a href="/lamentations/3-26.htm">26</a>It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of Yahweh. <a href="/lamentations/3-27.htm">27</a>It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth. <div align="center">Yodh</div><a href="/lamentations/3-28.htm">28</a>Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him. <a href="/lamentations/3-29.htm">29</a>Let him <a href="#fn">[†]</a>put his mouth in the dust; Perhaps there is hope. <a href="/lamentations/3-30.htm">30</a>Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him; Let him be saturated with reproach. <div align="center">Kaph</div><a href="/lamentations/3-31.htm">31</a>For the Lord will not reject forever, <a href="/lamentations/3-32.htm">32</a>For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness. <a href="/lamentations/3-33.htm">33</a>For He does not afflict from His heart Or grieve the sons of men. <div align="center">Lamedh</div><a href="/lamentations/3-34.htm">34</a>To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the <a href="#fn">[†]</a>land, <a href="/lamentations/3-35.htm">35</a>To <a href="#fn">[†]</a>deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High, <a href="/lamentations/3-36.htm">36</a>To <a href="#fn">[†]</a>defraud a man in his legal case— These things the Lord does not see with approval. <div align="center">Mem</div><a href="/lamentations/3-37.htm">37</a>Who is <a href="#fn">[†]</a>there who speaks and it happens, Unless the Lord has commanded it? <a href="/lamentations/3-38.htm">38</a>Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both calamities and <a href="#fn">[†]</a>good go forth? <a href="/lamentations/3-39.htm">39</a>Why should any living <a href="#fn">[†]</a>person or any man Complain because of his sins? <div align="center">Nun</div><a href="/lamentations/3-40.htm">40</a>Let us search out and examine our ways, And let us return to Yahweh. <a href="/lamentations/3-41.htm">41</a>We lift up our heart to our hands Toward God in heaven; <a href="/lamentations/3-42.htm">42</a>We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned. <div align="center">Samekh</div><a href="/lamentations/3-43.htm">43</a>You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have killed and have not spared. <a href="/lamentations/3-44.htm">44</a>You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through. <a href="/lamentations/3-45.htm">45</a>You have made us mere scum and refuse In the midst of the peoples. <div align="center">Pe</div><a href="/lamentations/3-46.htm">46</a>All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. <a href="/lamentations/3-47.htm">47</a>Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction; <a href="/lamentations/3-48.htm">48</a>My <a href="#fn">[†]</a>eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. <div align="center">Ayin</div><a href="/lamentations/3-49.htm">49</a>My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping, <a href="/lamentations/3-50.htm">50</a>Until Yahweh looks down And sees from heaven. <a href="/lamentations/3-51.htm">51</a>My eyes deal severely with my soul Because of all the daughters of my city. <div align="center">Tsadhe</div><a href="/lamentations/3-52.htm">52</a>My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird; <a href="/lamentations/3-53.htm">53</a>They have silenced my life in the pit And have <a href="#fn">[†]</a>placed a stone on me. <a href="/lamentations/3-54.htm">54</a>Waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off!” <div align="center">Qoph</div><a href="/lamentations/3-55.htm">55</a>I called on Your name, O Yahweh, Out of the lowest pit. <a href="/lamentations/3-56.htm">56</a>You have heard my voice, “Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help.” <a href="/lamentations/3-57.htm">57</a>You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not fear!” <div align="center">Resh</div><a href="/lamentations/3-58.htm">58</a>O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause; You have redeemed my life. <a href="/lamentations/3-59.htm">59</a>O Yahweh, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case. <a href="/lamentations/3-60.htm">60</a>You have seen all their vengeance, All their purposes against me. <div align="center">Sin/ Shin</div><a href="/lamentations/3-61.htm">61</a>You have heard their reproach, O Yahweh, All their purposes against me. <a href="/lamentations/3-62.htm">62</a>The lips of those who rise against me and their whispering Are against me all day long. <a href="/lamentations/3-63.htm">63</a>Look on their sitting and their rising; 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