^ La 3.1: I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
^ La 3.2: He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
^ La 3.3: Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.
^ La 3.4: My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
^ La 3.5: He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.
^ La 3.6: He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.
^ La 3.7: He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
^ La 3.8: Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
^ La 3.9: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
^ La 3.10: He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
^ La 3.11: He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
^ La 3.12: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
^ La 3.13: He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
^ La 3.14: I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.
^ La 3.15: He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
^ La 3.16: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
^ La 3.17: And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
^ La 3.18: And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
^ La 3.19: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
^ La 3.20: My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
^ La 3.21: This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
^ La 3.22: [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
^ La 3.23: [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
^ La 3.24: The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
^ La 3.25: The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
^ La 3.26: [It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
^ La 3.27: [It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
^ La 3.28: He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.
^ La 3.29: He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
^ La 3.30: He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
^ La 3.31: For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
^ La 3.32: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
^ La 3.33: For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
^ La 3.34: To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
^ La 3.35: To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
^ La 3.36: To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
^ La 3.37: Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?
^ La 3.38: Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
^ La 3.39: Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
^ La 3.40: Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
^ La 3.41: Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.
^ La 3.42: We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
^ La 3.43: Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
^ La 3.44: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.
^ La 3.45: Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
^ La 3.46: All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
^ La 3.47: Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
^ La 3.48: Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
^ La 3.49: Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
^ La 3.50: Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
^ La 3.51: Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
^ La 3.52: Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
^ La 3.53: They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
^ La 3.54: Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off.
^ La 3.55: I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
^ La 3.56: Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
^ La 3.57: Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
^ La 3.58: O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
^ La 3.59: O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
^ La 3.60: Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.
^ La 3.61: Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;
^ La 3.62: The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
^ La 3.63: Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.
^ La 3.64: Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
^ La 3.65: Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
^ La 3.66: Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.