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Lamentations 3

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Jeremiah Shares Israel's Affliction and Prays for Deliverance

 
I am the man who has seen afflictionby the rod of his wrath. +
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,and not in light. +
Surely he turns his hand against meagain and again all day long. +
He has made my flesh and my skin old.He has broken my bones. +
He has built against me,and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship. +
He has made me dwell in dark places,as those who have been long dead. +
He has walled me about, so that I can't go out.He has made my chain heavy. +
Yes, when I cry, and call for help,he shuts out my prayer. +
He has walled up my ways with cut stone.He has made my paths crooked. +
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He is to me as a bear lying in wait,as a lion in secret places. +
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He has turned aside my ways,and pulled me in pieces.He has made me desolate. +
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He has bent his bow,and set me as a mark for the arrow. +
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He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys. +
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I have become a derision to all my people,and their song all day long. +
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He has filled me with bitterness.He has stuffed me with wormwood. +
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He has also broken my teeth with gravel.He has covered me with ashes. +
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You have removed my soul far away from peace.I forgot prosperity. +
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I said, "My strength has perished,along with my expectation from The LORD." +
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Remember my affliction and my misery,the wormwood and the bitterness. +
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My soul still remembers them,and is bowed down within me. +
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This I recall to my mind;therefore I have hope. +
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It is because of The LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,because his compassion doesn't fail. +
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They are new every morning.Great is your faithfulness. +
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"The LORD is my portion," says my soul."Therefore I will hope in him." +
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The LORD is good to those who wait for him,to the soul who seeks him. +
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It is good that a man should hopeand quietly wait for the salvation of The LORD. +
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. +
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Let him sit alone and keep silence,because he has laid it on him. +
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Let him put his mouth in the dust,if it is so that there may be hope. +
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Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.Let him be filled full of reproach. +
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For the Lord will not cast off forever. +
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For though he causes grief,yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. +
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For he does not afflict willingly,nor grieve the children of men. +
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To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, +
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to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High, +
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to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve. +
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Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,when the Lord doesn't command it? +
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Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? +
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Why does a living man complain,a man for the punishment of his sins? +
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Let us search and try our ways,and turn again to The LORD. +
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Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens. +
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"We have transgressed and have rebelled.You have not pardoned. +
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"You have covered us with anger and pursued us.You have killed.You have not pitied. +
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You have covered yourself with a cloud,so that no prayer can pass through. +
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You have made us an off-scouring and refusein the middle of the peoples. +
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"All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. +
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Terror and the pit have come on us,devastation and destruction." +
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My eye runs down with streams of water,for the destruction of the daughter of my people. +
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My eye pours downand doesn't cease,without any intermission, +
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until the LORD looks down,and sees from heaven. +
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My eye affects my soul,because of all the daughters of my city. +
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They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,those who are my enemies without cause. +
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon,and have cast a stone on me. +
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Waters flowed over my head.I said, "I am cut off." +
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I called on your name, The LORD,out of the lowest dungeon. +
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You heard my voice:"Don't hide your ear from my sighing,and my cry." +
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You came near in the day that I called on you.You said, "Don't be afraid." +
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Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.You have redeemed my life. +
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The LORD, you have seen my wrong.Judge my cause. +
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You have seen all their vengeanceand all their devices against me. +
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You have heard their reproach, The LORD,and all their devices against me, +
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the lips of those that rose up against me,and their plots against me all day long. +
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You see their sitting down and their rising up.I am their song. +
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You will pay them back, The LORD,according to the work of their hands. +
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You will give them hardness of heart,your curse to them. +
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You will pursue them in anger,and destroy them from under the heavens of The LORD. +


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