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# Lamentations 3 (New King James Version)
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The Prophet's Anguish and Hope
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##### Chapter 3
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###### 1 I _am_ the man _who_ has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
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###### 2 He has led me and made _me_ walk
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_In_ darkness and not _in_ light.
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###### 3 Surely He has turned His hand against me
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Time and time again throughout the day.
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###### 4 He has aged my flesh and my skin,
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And broken my bones.
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###### 5 He has besieged me
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And surrounded _me_ with bitterness and woe.
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###### 6 He has set me in dark places
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Like the dead of long ago.
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###### 7 He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
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He has made my chain heavy.
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###### 8 Even when I cry and shout,
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He shuts out my prayer.
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###### 9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
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He has made my paths crooked.
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###### 10 He _has been_ to me a bear lying in wait,
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_Like_ a lion in ambush.
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###### 11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;
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He has made me desolate.
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###### 12 He has bent His bow
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And set me up as a target for the arrow.
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###### 13 He has caused the arrows of His quiver
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To pierce my loins.
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###### 14 I have become the ridicule of all my people--
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Their taunting song all the day.
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###### 15 He has filled me with bitterness,
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He has made me drink wormwood.
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###### 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel,
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And covered me with ashes.
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###### 17 You have moved my soul far from peace;
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I have forgotten prosperity.
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###### 18 And I said, "My strength and my hope
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Have perished from the Lord."
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###### 19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
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The wormwood and the gall.
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###### 20 My soul still remembers
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And sinks within me.
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###### 21 This I recall to my mind,
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Therefore I have hope.
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###### 22 _Through_ the Lord's mercies we are not consumed,
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Because His compassions fail not.
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###### 23 _They are_ new every morning;
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Great _is_ Your faithfulness.
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###### 24 "The Lord _is_ my portion," says my soul,
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"Therefore I hope in Him!"
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###### 25 The Lord _is_ good to those who wait for Him,
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To the soul _who_ seeks Him.
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###### 26 _It is_ good that _one_ should hope and wait quietly
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For the salvation of the Lord.
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###### 27 _It is_ good for a man to bear
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The yoke in his youth.
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###### 28 Let him sit alone and keep silent,
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Because _God_ has laid _it_ on him;
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###### 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust--
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There may yet be hope.
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###### 30 Let him give _his_ cheek to the one who strikes him,
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_And_ be full of reproach.
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###### 31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
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###### 32 Though He causes grief,
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Yet He will show compassion
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According to the multitude of His mercies.
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###### 33 For He does not afflict willingly,
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Nor grieve the children of men.
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###### 34 To crush under one's feet
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All the prisoners of the earth,
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###### 35 To turn aside the justice _due_ a man
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Before the face of the Most High,
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###### 36 Or subvert a man in his cause--
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The Lord does not approve.
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###### 37 Who _is_ he _who_ speaks and it comes to pass,
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_When_ the Lord has not commanded _it?_
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###### 38 _Is it_ not from the mouth of the Most High
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That woe and well-being proceed?
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###### 39 Why should a living man complain,
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A man for the punishment of his sins?
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###### 40 Let us search out and examine our ways,
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And turn back to the Lord;
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###### 41 Let us lift our hearts and hands
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To God in heaven.
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###### 42 We have transgressed and rebelled;
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You have not pardoned.
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###### 43 You have covered _Yourself_ with anger
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And pursued us;
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You have slain _and_ not pitied.
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###### 44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
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That prayer should not pass through.
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###### 45 You have made us an offscouring and refuse
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In the midst of the peoples.
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###### 46 All our enemies
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Have opened their mouths against us.
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###### 47 Fear and a snare have come upon us,
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Desolation and destruction.
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###### 48 My eyes overflow with rivers of water
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For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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###### 49 My eyes flow and do not cease,
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Without interruption,
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###### 50 Till the Lord from heaven
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Looks down and sees.
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###### 51 My eyes bring suffering to my soul
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Because of all the daughters of my city.
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###### 52 My enemies without cause
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Hunted me down like a bird.
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###### 53 They silenced my life in the pit
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And threw stones at me.
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###### 54 The waters flowed over my head;
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I said, "I am cut off!"
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###### 55 I called on Your name, O Lord,
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From the lowest pit.
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###### 56 You have heard my voice:
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"Do not hide Your ear
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From my sighing, from my cry for help."
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###### 57 You drew near on the day I called on You,
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And said, "Do not fear!"
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###### 58 O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul;
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You have redeemed my life.
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###### 59 O Lord, You have seen _how_ I am wronged;
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Judge my case.
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###### 60 You have seen all their vengeance,
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All their schemes against me.
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###### 61 You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
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All their schemes against me,
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###### 62 The lips of my enemies
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And their whispering against me all the day.
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###### 63 Look at their sitting down and their rising up;
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I _am_ their taunting song.
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###### 64 Repay them, O Lord,
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According to the work of their hands.
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###### 65 Give them a veiled heart;
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Your curse _be_ upon them!
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###### 66 In Your anger,
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Pursue and destroy them
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From under the heavens of the Lord.
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