ASV - Lamentations - 3

3:1  I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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

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

3:4  My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

3:5  He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

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

3:7  He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

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

3:9  He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

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

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

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

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

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

3:15  He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

3:16  He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

3:17  And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

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

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

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

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

3:22  It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

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

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

3:25  Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh 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 hath 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 that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

3:31  For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

3:32  For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

3:33  For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children 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 approveth not.

3:37  Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

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

3:39  Wherefore doth 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 unto God in the heavens.

3:42  We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

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

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

3:45  Thou hast made us an offscouring 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 are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

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

3:49  Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

3:50  Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.

3:51  Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

3:52  They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine 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 heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

3:57  Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

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

3:59  O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

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

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

3:62  The lips of those that 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 wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

3:65  Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

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