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He hath broken my bones.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.</p> <p class="acrostic">ג</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.</p> <p class="acrostic">ד</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.</p> <p class="acrostic">ה</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me [with] wormwood.</p> <p class="acrostic">ו</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.</p> <p class="hdg">Jeremiah's Hope</p><p class="acrostic">ז</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This I turn to my heart — therefore I hope.</p> <p class="acrostic">ח</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>New every morning, abundant [is] thy faithfulness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>My portion [is] Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.</p> <p class="acrostic">ט</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Good [is] Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul [that] seeketh Him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.</p> <p class="acrostic">י</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid [it] upon him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.</p> <p class="acrostic">כ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>For He hath not afflicted with His heart, Nor doth He grieve the sons of men.</p> <p class="acrostic">ל</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>To bruise under one’s feet any bound ones of earth,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved.</p> <p class="hdg">God's Justice</p><p class="acrostic">מ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Who [is] this — he hath said, and it is, [And] the Lord hath not commanded [it]?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>What — sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?</p> <p class="acrostic">נ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>We — we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou — Thou hast not forgiven.</p> <p class="acrostic">ס</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain — Thou hast not pitied.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.</p> <p class="acrostic">פ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.</p> <p class="acrostic">ע</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.</p> <p class="acrostic">צ</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.</p> <p class="hdg">A Prayer for Deliverance</p><p class="acrostic">ק</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span>My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing — at my cry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span>Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not.</p> <p class="acrostic">ר</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-58.htm"><b>58</b></a></span>Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-59.htm"><b>59</b></a></span>Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-60.htm"><b>60</b></a></span>Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.</p> <p class="acrostic">ש</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-61.htm"><b>61</b></a></span>Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-62.htm"><b>62</b></a></span>The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-63.htm"><b>63</b></a></span>Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I [am] their song.</p> <p class="acrostic">ת</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-64.htm"><b>64</b></a></span>Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-65.htm"><b>65</b></a></span>Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/lamentations/3-66.htm"><b>66</b></a></span>Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible 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