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Lamentations 3

1 I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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2 He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
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3 Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
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4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
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5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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6 He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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7 He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
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8 Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
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9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
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10 He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
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11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.
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12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
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16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.
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17 And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.
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18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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19 Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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20 My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
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22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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23 They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness.
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24 The LORD is my portion, said my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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25 The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
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26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
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27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
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28 He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him.
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29 He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
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30 He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.
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31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
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32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
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33 For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
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34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
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35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
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36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not.
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37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
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38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
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39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
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42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned.
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43 You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
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44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
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45 You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people.
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46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
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47 Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction.
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48 My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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49 My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission.
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50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
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51 My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
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52 My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
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53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me.
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54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
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55 I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
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56 You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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57 You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not.
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58 O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
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59 O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
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60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
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61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
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62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
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64 Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
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65 Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.
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66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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