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Lamentations 3:32 (NIV)
Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
Lamentations 3:33 (NIV)
For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.
Lamentations 3:34 (NIV)
To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
Lamentations 3:35 (NIV)
to deny people their rights before the Most High,
Lamentations 3:36 (NIV)
to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?
Lamentations 3:37 (NIV)
Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
Lamentations 3:38 (NIV)
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
Lamentations 3:39 (NIV)
Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
Lamentations 3:40 (NIV)
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord .
Lamentations 3:41 (NIV)
Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
Lamentations 3:42 (NIV)
“We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
Lamentations 3:43 (NIV)
“You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
Lamentations 3:44 (NIV)
You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
Lamentations 3:45 (NIV)
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
Lamentations 3:46 (NIV)
“All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
Lamentations 3:47 (NIV)
We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
Lamentations 3:48 (NIV)
Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
Lamentations 3:49 (NIV)
My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
Lamentations 3:50 (NIV)
until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.
Lamentations 3:51 (NIV)
What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
Lamentations 3:52 (NIV)
Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
Lamentations 3:53 (NIV)
They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
Lamentations 3:54 (NIV)
the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.
Lamentations 3:55 (NIV)
I called on your name, Lord , from the depths of the pit.
Lamentations 3:56 (NIV)
You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”