Darby - Lamentations - 3

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

3:2  Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.

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

3:4  My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.

3:5  He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.

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

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

3:8  Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

3:9  He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

3:10  He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, 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 arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

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

3:15  He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk 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 have forgotten prosperity.

3:18  And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.

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

3:20  My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

3:21  — This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.

3:22  It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness 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 one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.

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

3:28  He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;

3:29  he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;

3:30  he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.

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

3:32  but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:

3:33  for he doth not willingly afflict or 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 wrong a man in his cause, — will not the Lord see it?

3:37  Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?

3:38  Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed 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 untoGod in the heavens.

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

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

3:44  Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.

3:45  Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

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

3:47  Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.

3:48  Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin 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 the heavens.

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

3:52  They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.

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

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

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

3:56  Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.

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

3:58  Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.

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

3:60  Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.

3:61  Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;

3:62  the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.

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

3:64  Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;

3:65  give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;

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