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Jeremiah Shares Israel's Affliction |
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Lamentations 3:1
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I am the man who has seen affliction Because
of the rod of His wrath. |
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Lamentations 3:2
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He has driven me and made me walk In darkness
and not in light. |
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Lamentations 3:3
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against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly
all the day. |
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Lamentations 3:4
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He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste
away, He has broken my bones. |
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Lamentations 3:5
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He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness
and hardship. |
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Lamentations 3:6
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In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those
who have long been dead. |
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Lamentations 3:7
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He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;
He has made my chain heavy. |
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Lamentations 3:8
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Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts
out my prayer. |
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Lamentations 3:9
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He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has
made my paths crooked. |
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Lamentations 3:10
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He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like
a lion in secret places. |
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Lamentations 3:11
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He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces;
He has made me desolate. |
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Lamentations 3:12
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He bent His bow And set me as a target for the
arrow. |
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Lamentations 3:13
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He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into
my inward parts. |
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Lamentations 3:14
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I have become a laughingstock to all my people,
Their mocking song all the day. |
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Lamentations 3:15
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He has filled me with bitterness, He has made
me drunk with wormwood. |
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Lamentations 3:16
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He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made
me cower in the dust. |
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Lamentations 3:17
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My soul has been rejected from peace; I have
forgotten happiness. |
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Lamentations 3:18
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So I say, "My strength has perished, And so
has my hope from the LORD." |
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Hope of Relief in God's Mercy |
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Lamentations 3:19
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Remember my affliction and my wandering, the
wormwood and bitterness. |
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Lamentations 3:20
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Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within
me. |
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Lamentations 3:21
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This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.
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Lamentations 3:22
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The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail. |
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Lamentations 3:23
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They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. |
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Lamentations 3:24
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"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore
I have hope in Him." |
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Lamentations 3:25
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The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
To the person who seeks Him. |
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Lamentations 3:26
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It is good that he waits silently For the salvation
of the LORD. |
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Lamentations 3:27
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It is good for a man that he should bear The
yoke in his youth. |
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Lamentations 3:28
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Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has
laid it on him. |
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Lamentations 3:29
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Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there
is hope. |
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Lamentations 3:30
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Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him
be filled with reproach. |
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Lamentations 3:31
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For the Lord will not reject forever, |
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Lamentations 3:32
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For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness. |
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Lamentations 3:33
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For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve
the sons of men. |
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Lamentations 3:34
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To crush under His feet All the prisoners of
the land, |
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Lamentations 3:35
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To deprive a man of justice In the presence
of the Most High, |
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Lamentations 3:36
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To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things
the Lord does not approve. |
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Lamentations 3:37
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Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it? |
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Lamentations 3:38
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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That
both good and ill go forth? |
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Lamentations 3:39
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Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer
complaint in view of his sins? |
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Lamentations 3:40
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Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us
return to the LORD. |
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Lamentations 3:41
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We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in
heaven; |
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Lamentations 3:42
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We have transgressed and rebelled, You have
not pardoned. |
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Lamentations 3:43
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You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued
us; You have slain and have not spared. |
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Lamentations 3:44
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You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that
no prayer can pass through. |
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Lamentations 3:45
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You have made us mere offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples. |
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Lamentations 3:46
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All our enemies have opened their mouths against
us. |
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Lamentations 3:47
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Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation
and destruction; |
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Lamentations 3:48
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My eyes run down with streams of water Because
of the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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Lamentations 3:49
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My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping,
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Lamentations 3:50
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Until the LORD looks down And sees from heaven.
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Lamentations 3:51
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My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all
the daughters of my city. |
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Lamentations 3:52
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My enemies without cause Hunted me down like
a bird; |
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Lamentations 3:53
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They have silenced me in the pit And have placed
a stone on me. |
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Lamentations 3:54
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Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut
off!" |
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Lamentations 3:55
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I called on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest
pit. |
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Lamentations 3:56
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You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear
from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help." |
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Lamentations 3:57
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You drew near when I called on You; You said,
"Do not fear!" |
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Lamentations 3:58
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O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You
have redeemed my life. |
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Lamentations 3:59
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O LORD, You have seen my oppression; Judge my
case. |
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Lamentations 3:60
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You have seen all their vengeance, All their
schemes against me. |
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Lamentations 3:61
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You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their
schemes against me. |
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Lamentations 3:62
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The lips of my assailants and their whispering
Are against me all day long. |
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Lamentations 3:63
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Look on their sitting and their rising; I am
their mocking song. |
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Lamentations 3:64
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You will recompense them, O LORD, According
to the work of their hands. |
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Lamentations 3:65
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You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse
will be on them. |
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Lamentations 3:66
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You will pursue them in anger and destroy them
From under the heavens of the LORD! |
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