AKJV - Lamentations - 3

3:1  I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

3:2  He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3:3  Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.

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

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

3:6  He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

3:7  He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.

3:8  Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

3:9  He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.

3:10  He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret 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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

3:14  I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

3:15  He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.

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

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

3:18  And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

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

3:20  My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

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

3:22  It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

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

3:24  The LORD is my portion, said my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

3:25  The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

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

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

3:28  He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.

3:29  He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

3:30  He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.

3:31  For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

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

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

3:34  To crush under his feet 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 approves not.

3:37  Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?

3:38  Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not 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 the LORD.

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

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

3:43  You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.

3:44  You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

3:45  You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people.

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

3:47  Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.

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

3:49  My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.

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

3:51  My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

3:52  My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

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

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

3:55  I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

3:56  You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

3:57  You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not.

3:58  O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

3:59  O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.

3:60  You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

3:61  You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

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

3:63  Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.

3:64  Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

3:65  Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.

3:66  Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.