Lam Lamentations, chapter Book of Lamentations, chapter 3
I am the man who has seen affliction
by the rod of his wrath.Ezk 7:10
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
and not in light.Jer 13:16
Surely he turns his hand against me
again and again all day long.Job 19:21
He has made my flesh and my skin old.
He has broken my bones.
He has built against me,
and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.Jer 9:15
He has made me dwell in dark places,
as those who have been long dead.Psa 143:3
He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
He has made my chain heavy.Job 19:8
Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
he shuts out my prayer.
He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
He has made my paths crooked.Hos 2:6
He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in hiding.Hos 5:14; Hos 13:7
He has turned away my path,
and pulled me in pieces.
He has made me desolate.
He has bent his bow,
and set me as a mark for the arrow.Job 16:12
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
I have become a derision to all my people,
and their song all day long.Job 30:9
He has filled me with bitterness.
He has stuffed me with wormwood.Job 9:18
He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
He has covered me with ashes.Pro 20:17
You have removed my soul far away from peace.
I forgot prosperity.
I said, “My strength has perished,
along with my expectation from the LORD.”Jer 17:13
Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the bitterness.
My soul still remembers them,
and is bowed down within me.Mrk 15:23
This I recall to my mind;
therefore I have hope.
It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his mercies don’t fail.Neh 9:31; Psa 86:13; Jhn 3:16
They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.Psa 138:8
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul.
“Therefore I will hope in him.”Psa 16:5; Jer 10:16
The LORD is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.Psa 34:8; Hab 2:3
It is good that a man should hope
and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.Psa 119:71
Let him sit alone and keep silence,
because he has laid it on him.Psa 39:9; Psa 77:10
Let him put his mouth in the dust,
if it is so that there may be hope.
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
Let him be filled full of reproach.Mat 5:39
For the Lord will not cast off forever.Psa 77:7
For though he causes grief,
yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.Psa 30:5; Isa 54:7; Mic 7:18
For he does not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men.
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
when the Lord doesn’t command it?
Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?Jhn 1:3
Why should a living man complain,
a man for the punishment of his sins?Jer 30:15; Mat 7:3
Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to the LORD.Jer 3:23; 1Co 11:28
Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God3:41 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim). in the heavens.
“We have transgressed and have rebelled.
You have not pardoned.Dan 9:5
“You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
You have killed.
You have not pitied.
You have covered yourself with a cloud,
so that no prayer can pass through.
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
in the middle of the peoples.1Co 4:13
“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Terror and the pit have come on us,
devastation and destruction.”Isa 24:17
My eye runs down with streams of water,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.Jer 14:17
My eye pours down
and doesn’t cease,
without any intermission,
until the LORD looks down,
and sees from heaven.Psa 80:14
My eye affects my soul,
because of all the daughters of my city.Lam 1:16
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
those who are my enemies without cause.Jer 12:9
They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and have cast a stone on me.Jer 37:15
Waters flowed over my head.
I said, “I am cut off.”
I called on your name, LORD,
out of the lowest dungeon.Psa 130:1
You heard my voice:
“Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
and my cry.”
You came near in the day that I called on you.
You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
You have redeemed my life.
LORD, you have seen my wrong.
Judge my cause.
You have seen all their vengeance
and all their plans against me.
You have heard their reproach, LORD,
and all their plans against me,
the lips of those that rose up against me,
and their plots against me all day long.
You see their sitting down and their rising up.
I am their song.
You will pay them back, LORD,
according to the work of their hands.Psa 28:4
You will give them hardness of heart,
your curse to them.
You will pursue them in anger,
and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.Psa 79:6