LITV - Lamentations - 3

3:1  I, the man, have seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

3:2  He led me and made me go in darkness and not light.

3:3  Surely He turned against me; He turns His hand all the day.

3:4  He has wasted my flesh and my skin. He has shattered my bones.

3:5  He built against me and has put around me bitterness and hardship.

3:6  He has made me live in dark places like the dead of old.

3:7  He walled around me and I cannot go out; He has made heavy my bronze chain .

3:8  Also, when I cry out and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.

3:9  He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked.

3:10  He was a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in secret places.

3:11  He has deflected my ways and torn me to pieces; He made me desolate.

3:12  He has trod His bow and set me up as a mark for the arrow.

3:13  He caused the sons of His quiver to enter into my inward parts.

3:14  I was a mockery to all my people, their song all the day.

3:15  He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.

3:16  And He broke my teeth with gravel; He has covered me in the ashes.

3:17  And You cast off my soul from peace; I have forgotten goodness.

3:18  And I said, My strength and my hope are gone from Jehovah.

3:19  Remember my affliction and my roaming, as wormwood and bitterness.

3:20  My soul vividly remembers and bows down on me.

3:21  I bring back this to my heart. On account of this I hope.

3:22  It is by the kindnesses of Jehovah that we are not consumed, for His mercies are not ended.

3:23  They are new by mornings; great is Your faithfulness.

3:24  Jehovah is my portion, says my soul. On account of this I shall hope to Him.

3:25  Jehovah is good to those waiting on Him, to the soul seeking Him.

3:26  It is good that a man hopes for the salvation of Jehovah, even in silence.

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

3:28  He sits alone and is silent, for He laid it on him.

3:29  He puts his mouth in the dust, if perhaps there is hope.

3:30  He gives his cheek to Him who strikes him; he is filled with reproach.

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

3:32  For though He causes grief, He will have pity according to His many kindnesses.

3:33  For He does not afflict from His heart, nor does He grieve the sons of man,

3:34  to crush all the prisoners of earth under His feet,

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

3:36  to wrong a man in his cause. This, the Lord does not see.

3:37  Who is this speaking, and it happens when the Lord does not command it?

3:38  Both the evil and the good do not go out from the mouth of the Most High.

3:39  What? Should mankind complain, living man because of his sins?

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

3:41  Let us lift up our heart and palms to God in Heaven.

3:42  We have transgressed and rebelled; You, You have not forgiven.

3:43  You have wrapped Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain; You have not pitied.

3:44  You have covered with a cloud for You, from any prayer passing through.

3:45  You have made us sweepings and garbage in the midst of the peoples.

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

3:47  Dread and a pit is ours, devastation and ruin.

3:48  Streams of water go out of my eye for the ruin of the daughter of my people.

3:49  My eye flows out and does not cease, from there not being any relaxing,

3:50  until Jehovah shall look down and see from Heaven.

3:51  My eye deals severely with my soul, from all the daughters of my city.

3:52  My haters have hunted me like a bird without cause.

3:53  They have cut off my life in the pit, and they threw a stone at me.

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

3:55  I called on Your name, O Jehovah, from the lowest pit.

3:56  You have heard my voice; do not hide Your ear at my relief, at my cry for help.

3:57  You came near in the day I called You; you said, Do not fear!

3:58  O Lord, You contended for the causes of my soul; You redeemed my life.

3:59  You have seen my wrong, O Jehovah; judge my cause.

3:60  You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

3:61  You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their plots against me,

3:62  the lips of those rising up against me, and their scheming against me all the day.

3:63  Look at their sitting and their rising up. I am their song.

3:64  You will give back a recompense to them, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

3:65  You will give them an insolent heart as Your curse to them.

3:66  Pursue and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of Jehovah.