Lamentations 3

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