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    Lamentations 3
    •   I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
    •   By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
    •   Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
    •   My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
    •   He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
    •   He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
    •   He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
    •   Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
    •   He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
    • 10   He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
    • 11   By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
    • 12   With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
    • 13   He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
    • 14   I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
    • 15   He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
    • 16   By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
    • 17   My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
    • 18   And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
    • 19   Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
    • 20   My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
    • 21   This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.
    • 22   It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
    • 23   They are new every morning; great is your good faith.
    • 24   I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
    • 25   The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
    • 26   It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
    • 27   It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
    • 28   Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
    • 29   Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
    • 30   Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.
    • 31   For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.
    • 32   For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
    • 33   For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.
    • 34   In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
    • 35   In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.
    • 36   In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.
    • 37   Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
    • 38   Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
    • 39   What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
    • 40   Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
    • 41   Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
    • 42   We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
    • 43   Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
    • 44   Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
    • 45   You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.
    • 46   The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
    • 47   Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
    • 48   Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
    • 49   My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
    • 50   Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
    • 51   The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
    • 52   They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
    • 53   They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
    • 54   Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
    • 55   I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
    • 56   My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
    • 57   You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.
    • 58   O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.
    • 59   O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.
    • 60   You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
    • 61   Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;
    • 62   The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.
    • 63   Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
    • 64   You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.
    • 65   You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.
    • 66   You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.
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