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caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Surely against me He turneth His hand again and again all the day.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ב</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My flesh and my skin hath He worn out;</div><div class="po2">He hath broken my bones.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He hath builded against me, and compassed me</div><div class="po2">With gall and travail.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He hath made me to dwell in dark places,</div><div class="po2">As those that have been long dead.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ג</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth;</div><div class="po2">He hath made my chain heavy.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Yea, when I cry and call for help,</div><div class="po2">He shutteth out my prayer.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone,</div><div class="po2">He hath made my paths crooked.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ד</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He is unto me as a bear lying in wait,</div><div class="po2">As a lion in secret places.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces;</div><div class="po2">He hath made me desolate.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He hath bent His bow, and set me</div><div class="po2">As a mark for the arrow.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ה</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He hath caused the arrows of His quiver</div><div class="po2">To enter into my reins.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I am become a derision to all my people,</div><div class="po2">And their song all the day.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He hath filled me with bitterness,</div><div class="po2">He hath sated me with wormwood.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ו</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones,</div><div class="po2">He hath made me to wallow in ashes.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And my soul is removed far off from peace,</div><div class="po2">I forgot prosperity.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And I said: ‘My strength is perished,</div><div class="po2">And mine expectation from the LORD.’</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ז</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Remember mine affliction and mine anguish,</div><div class="po2">The wormwood and the gall.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>My soul hath them still in remembrance,</div><div class="po2">And is bowed down within me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This I recall to my mind,</div><div class="po2">Therefore have I hope.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ח</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Surely the LORD’S mercies are not consumed,</div><div class="po2">Surely His compassions fail not.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They are new every morning;</div><div class="po2">Great is Thy faithfulness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>‘The LORD is my portion’, saith my soul;</div><div class="po2">‘Therefore will I hope in Him.’</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ט</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The LORD is good unto them that wait for Him,</div><div class="po2">To the soul that seeketh Him.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>It is good that a man should quietly wait</div><div class="po2">For the salvation of the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>It is good for a man that he bear</div><div class="po2">The yoke in his youth.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">י</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Let him sit alone and keep silence,</div><div class="po2">Because He hath laid it upon him.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Let him put his mouth in the dust,</div><div class="po2">If so be there may be hope.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him</div><div class="po2">Let him be filled full with reproach.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">כ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For the Lord will not cast off</div><div class="po2">For ever.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion</div><div class="po2">According to the multitude of His mercies.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>For He doth not afflict willingly,</div><div class="po2">Nor grieve the children of men.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ל</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>To crush under foot</div><div class="po2">All the prisoners of the earth,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>To turn aside the right of a man</div><div class="po2">Before the face of the Most High,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>To subvert a man in his cause,</div><div class="po2">The Lord approveth not.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">מ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass,</div><div class="po2">When the Lord commandeth it not?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not</div><div class="po2">Evil and good?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Wherefore doth a living man complain,</div><div class="po2">A strong man because of his sins?</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">נ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Let us search and try our ways,</div><div class="po2">And return to the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Let us lift up our heart with our hands</div><div class="po2">Unto God in the heavens.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>We have transgressed and have rebelled;</div><div class="po2">Thou hast not pardoned.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ס</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us;</div><div class="po2">Thou hast slain unsparingly.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud,</div><div class="po2">So that no prayer can pass through.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse</div><div class="po2">In the midst of the peoples.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">פ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>All our enemies have opened their mouth</div><div class="po2">Wide against us.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Terror and the pit are come upon us,</div><div class="po2">Desolation and destruction.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water,</div><div class="po2">For the breach of the daughter of my people.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ע</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not,</div><div class="po2">Without any intermission,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Till the LORD look forth,</div><div class="po2">And behold from heaven.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>Mine eye affected my soul,</div><div class="po2">Because of all the daughters of my city.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">צ</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>They have chased me sore like a bird,</div><div class="po2">That are mine enemies without cause.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>They have cut off my life in the dungeon,</div><div class="po2">And have cast stones upon me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>Waters flowed over my head;</div><div class="po2">I said: ‘I am cut off.’</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ק</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>I called upon Thy name, O LORD,</div><div class="po2">Out of the lowest dungeon.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span>Thou heardest my voice; hide not</div><div class="po2">Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span>Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee;</div><div class="po2">Thou saidst: ‘Fear not.’</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ר</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-58.htm"><b>58</b></a></span>O Lord, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul;</div><div class="po2">Thou hast redeemed my life.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-59.htm"><b>59</b></a></span>O LORD, Thou hast seen my wrong;</div><div class="po2">Judge Thou my cause.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-60.htm"><b>60</b></a></span>Thou hast seen all their vengeance</div><div class="po2">And all their devices against me.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ש</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-61.htm"><b>61</b></a></span>Thou hast heard their taunt, O LORD,</div><div class="po2">And all their devices against me;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-62.htm"><b>62</b></a></span>The lips of those that rose up against me,</div><div class="po2">And their muttering against me all the day.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-63.htm"><b>63</b></a></span>Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up;</div><div class="po2">I am their song.</div> <div align="center"><p class="hebheading">ת</p></div><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-64.htm"><b>64</b></a></span>Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O LORD,</div><div class="po2">According to the work of their hands.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-65.htm"><b>65</b></a></span>Thou wilt 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