Noyes - Lamentations - 3

3:1  I am the man that hath seen affliction under the rod of His wrath;

3:2  He hath led me and brought me into darkness, and not into light;

3:3  Yea, against me doth he again and again turn his hand all the day long.

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

3:5  He hath builded against me, and encompassed me with bitterness and woe.

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

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

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

3:9  He blocketh up my way with hewn stone; he maketh my paths crooked.

3:10  A bear lying in wait hath he been to me, a lion in lurking-places.

3:11  He hath turned aside my ways, and torn 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 sons of his quiver to pierce my reins.

3:14  I have been a laughing-stock to all my people, their song all the day.

3:15  He hath filled 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  Yea, thou hast removed my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.

3:18  And I say, "My confidence and my hope in Jehovah are gone!"

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

3:20  Yea, thou wilt remember them, for my soul sinketh within me!

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

3:22  It is of the mercy of Jehovah that we are not consumed; yea, his compassion faileth not;

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

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

3:25  Jehovah is good to them that trust in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

3:26  It is good that a man hope, and quietly wait for salvation from Jehovah.

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

3:28  That he sit alone and keep silence, since He layeth it upon him;

3:29  That he put his mouth in the dust, [saying to himself,] "Perhaps there may be hope!"

3:30  That he offer his cheek to the smiter; that he be filled with reproach.

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

3:32  For though he cause grief, yet doth he have compassion according to his great mercy;

3:33  For he doth not willingly afflict and grieve the children of men.

3:34  Doth one trample under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

3:35  Doth he bend the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

3:36  Doth he subvert a man in his cause, and shall not the Lord behold it?

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

3:38  Cometh not evil, as well as good, from the mouth of the Most High?

3:39  Wherefore then murmureth the living man? Let him murmur at his own sin!

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

3:41  Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens!

3:42  We have transgressed; we have rebelled; thou hast not forgiven!

3:43  Thou hast hidden thyself in anger, and hast pursued us; thou hast slain and hast not spared;

3:44  Thou hast hidden thyself in a cloud, that our prayer may not pass through;

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

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

3:47  Terror and the pit have come upon us, desolation 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 trickleth down and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

3:50  Until Jehovah look down and behold from heaven.

3:51  Mine eye is painful to me on account of all the daughters of my city.

3:52  They that are my enemies without cause hunt me down like a bird;

3:53  They take away my life in the dungeon; they cast a stone upon me;

3:54  Waters flow over my head; I say, "I am undone!"

3:55  I call upon thy name, O Jehovah, from the deep dungeon;

3:56  Hear thou my voice! hide not thine ear from my cry for relief!

3:57  Be near to me, when I call upon thee! Say, "Fear not!"

3:58  Thou maintainest my cause, O Lord; thou redeemest my life!

3:59  Thou, O Jehovah, seest the wrong done to me; Maintain thou my cause!

3:60  Thou seest all their vengeance, all their devices against me.

3:61  Thou hearest their reproach, O Jehovah, all their devices against me,

3:62  The words of my adversaries, and their machinations against me all the day long!

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

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

3:65  Give them blindness of mind! thy curse be upon them!

3:66  Pursue them in thine anger, and destroy them from under Jehovah’s heaven!