Lamentations 3
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The Prophet’s Anguish
1#Ps 88:7; Job 19:21 I am the man who has seen affliction
by the rod of His wrath.
2#Job 30:26; Isa 59:9 He has driven and brought me
into darkness without any light.
3Surely against me has He turned His hand
continually, the whole day long.
4#Ps 51:8; Isa 38:13 My flesh and my skin He has made waste away;
He has broken my bones;
5#La 3:19; Jer 23:15 He has besieged and enveloped me
with gall and travail.
6#Ps 88:5–6; 143:3 He has set me in dark places,
like the dead of long ago.
7#Job 3:23; 19:8 He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
8#Job 30:20; Ps 22:2 Even when I cry for help,
He shuts out my prayer.
9#Isa 63:17 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
10He is to me a bear lying in wait,
a lion in hiding.
11#Hos 6:1; Job 16:12–13 He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
12#Job 7:20; Ps 38:2 He has bent His bow
and set me as a target for the arrow.
13#Job 6:4 He has caused the arrows of His quiver
to pierce my inward parts.
14#Jer 20:7; La 3:63 I have become the derision of all my people,
their mocking song all the day.
15#Jer 9:15 He has filled me with bitterness,
He has sated me with wormwood.
16#Pr 20:17; Jer 6:26 He has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and covered me with ashes.
17#Isa 59:11 My soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten prosperity.
18#Job 17:15; Eze 37:11 So I say, “My strength and my hope
from the Lord have perished.”
19#La 3:5; 3:15 Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the gall.
20#Ps 42:5–6; 42:11 Surely my soul remembers
and is humbled within me.
21#Ps 130:7 But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
22#Mal 3:6; Ps 78:38 It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed;
His compassions do not fail.
23#Zep 3:5; Ps 36:5 They are new every morning;
great is Your faithfulness.
24#Ps 16:5; 73:26 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in Him.”
25#Isa 25:9; 30:18 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
to the soul who seeks Him.
26#Ps 37:7; 130:5 It is good that a man should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
27#Ecc 12:1 It is good for a man to bear the yoke
in his youth.
28#Jer 15:17; La 2:10 Let him sit alone in silence
when it is laid on him;
29#Job 40:4 let him put his mouth in the dust—
there may yet be hope.
30#Isa 50:6; Job 16:10 Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
and let him be filled with insults.
31#Ps 94:14; 77:7 For the Lord
will not cast off forever.
32#Ps 78:38; Hos 11:8 But though He causes grief, yet He will have compassion
according to the abundance of His mercies.
33#Eze 33:11 For He does not afflict from His heart,
nor grieve the sons of men.
34To crush underfoot
all the prisoners of the earth,
35to turn aside the justice due a man
in the presence of the Most High,
36#Hab 1:13 to subvert a man in his cause,
the Lord does not approve.
37#Ps 33:9–11 Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass,
unless the Lord has commanded it?
38#Isa 45:7; Job 2:10 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that good and bad proceed?
39#Mic 7:9; Pr 19:3 Why should a living man complain,
a man for the punishment of his sins?
40#Ps 119:59; 139:23–24 Let us search and try our ways,
and return to the Lord!
41#Ps 25:1; 28:2 Let us lift up our hearts and hands
to God in heaven:
42#2Ki 24:4; Ne 9:26 We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.
43#La 2:21; 2:17; Ps 83:15 You have covered Yourself with anger and pursued us;
You have killed and not pitied.
44#La 3:8; Ps 97:2 You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
so that no prayer should pass through.
45#1Co 4:13 You have made us filthy refuse
in the midst of the peoples.
46#La 2:16; Ps 22:6–8 All our enemies have opened their mouths
against us.
47#Isa 24:17–18; 51:19 Panic and snare have come upon us,
desolation and destruction.
48#La 2:11; Ps 119:136 My eyes flow with rivers of tears
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49#Jer 14:17; Ps 77:2 My eyes flow and do not cease,
without respite,
50#Isa 63:15; La 5:1 until the Lord from heaven
looks down and sees.
51My eyes bring suffering to my soul
at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
52#Ps 35:7; 35:19 My enemies chased me like a bird,
without cause.
53#Jer 38:6; 38:9 They cut off my life in the pit
and cast stones on me.
54#Jnh 2:3–5; Eze 37:11 Waters flowed over my head;
I said, “I am cut off!”
55I called on Your name, O Lord,
from the lowest pit.
56#Ps 55:1; Job 34:28 You have heard my plea:
“Do not close Your ear to my cry for help!”
57#Isa 41:10; Ps 145:18 You drew near on the day I called on You,
and You said, “Do not fear!”
58#Jer 51:36 O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul;
You have redeemed my life.
59#Ps 26:1; 35:23 O Lord, You have seen the wrong done tome;
judge my case.
60#Jer 11:19–20 You have seen all their vengeance,
all their schemes against me.
61#La 5:1; Ps 74:18 You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
all their schemes against me,
62#Eze 36:3; Ps 59:7 the lips of my enemies and
their devices against me all the day.
63#Ps 139:2; La 3:14 Look at their sitting down and their risingup;
I am their mocking song.
64#Ps 28:4; Jer 11:20 Render to them a recompense, O Lord,
according to the work of their hands.
65#Isa 6:10; Dt 2:30 Give them hardness of heart;
may Your curse be upon them!
66#Ps 8:3; Dt 25:19 In Your anger pursue and destroy them
from under Your heavens, O Lord!
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