ACV - Lamentations - 3

3:1  I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

3:2  He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

3:3  Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.

3:4  He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

3:5  He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.

3:6  He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead.

3:7  He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.

3:8  Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

3:9  He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.

3:10  He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.

3:11  He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

3:12  He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

3:13  He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

3:14  I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

3:15  He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.

3:16  He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.

3:17  And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.

3:18  And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Jehovah.

3:19  Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

3:20  My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

3:21  This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:

3:22  It is of Jehovah's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.

3:23  They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.

3:24  Jehovah is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.

3:25  Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

3:26  It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.

3:27  It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

3:28  Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.

3:29  Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

3:30  Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.

3:31  For the Lord will not cast off forever.

3:32  For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

3:33  For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons of men.

3:34  To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

3:35  to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

3:36  to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

3:37  Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord does not command it?

3:38  Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good?

3:39  Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

3:40  Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

3:41  Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

3:42  We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.

3:43  Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.

3:44  Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

3:45  Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

3:46  All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

3:47  Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

3:48  My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

3:49  My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission,

3:50  till Jehovah looks down, and beholds from heaven.

3:51  My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

3:52  They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

3:53  They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

3:54  Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.

3:55  I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

3:56  Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

3:57  Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.

3:58  O Lord, thou have pleaded the causes of my soul. Thou have redeemed my life.

3:59  O Jehovah, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause.

3:60  Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

3:61  Thou have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

3:62  the lips of those who rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

3:63  Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song.

3:64  Thou will render to them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

3:65  Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.

3:66  Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.