Lamentations 3

Great Is Your Faithfulness

3I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;H1397H7200H6040H7626H56782he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;H5090H3212H2822H2163surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.H7725H2015H3027H31174He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;H1320H5785H1086H7665H61065he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;H1129H5362H7219H85136he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.H3427H4285H4191H57697He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;H1443H3318H5178H35138though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;H2199H7768H5640H86059he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.H1443H1870H1496H5410H575310He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;H1677H693H738H456511he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;H5493H1870H6582H7760H807412he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.H1869H7198H5324H4307H267113He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;H1121H827H935H362914I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.H7814H5971H5058H311715He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.H7646H4844H7301H393916He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;H1638H8127H2687H3728H66517my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;H2186H5315H2186H7965H5382H289618so I say, "My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD."H559H5331H8431H6H306819Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!H2142H6040H4788H3939H721920My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.H5315H2142H2142H774321But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:H7725H3820H317622The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;H3068H2617H8552H7356H361523they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.H2319H1242H7227H53024"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."H3068H2506H559H5315H317625The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.H3068H2896H6960H5315H187526It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.H2896H3175H2342H1748H8668H306827It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.H2896H1397H5375H5923H527128Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;H3427H910H1826H519029let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;H5414H6310H6083H3426H861530let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults.H5414H3895H5221H7646H278131For the Lord will not cast off forever,H136H2186H576932but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;H3013H7355H7230H261733for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.H6031H3820H3013H1121H37634To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,H1792H7272H615H77635to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,H5186H4941H1397H6440H594536to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.H5791H120H7379H136H720037Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?H559H136H668038Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?H6310H5945H3318H7451H289639Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?H2416H120H596H1397H239940Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!H2664H2713H1870H7725H306841Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:H5375H3824H3709H410H806442"We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.H5168H6586H4784H554543"You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;H5526H639H7291H2026H255044you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.H5526H6051H8605H567445You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.H7760H5501H3973H7130H597146"All our enemies open their mouths against us;H341H6475H631047panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;H6343H6354H7612H766748my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.H5869H3381H6388H4325H7667H1323H597149"My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,H5869H5064H1820H201450until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees;H3068H8259H7200H806451my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.H5869H5953H5315H1323H589252"I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;H341H6679H6679H6833H260053they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;H6789H2416H953H3034H6854water closed over my head; I said, 'I am lost.'H4325H6687H7218H559H150455"I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;H7121H8034H3068H8482H95356you heard my plea, 'Do not close your ear to my cry for help!'H8085H6963H5956H241H7309H777557You came near when I called on you; you said, 'Do not fear!'H7126H3117H7121H559H337258"You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.H136H7378H7379H5315H1350H241659You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.H3068H7200H5792H8199H494160You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.H7200H5360H428461"You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.H8085H2781H3068H428462The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.H8193H6965H1902H311763Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.H5027H3427H7012H448564"You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.H7725H1576H3068H4639H302765You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them.H5414H4044H3820H838166You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD."H7291H8045H639H8064H3068