These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Lamentations 3
Tanakh 66 verses
- 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.
- 2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.
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Surely against me He turneth His hand again and again all the day.
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My and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.
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He hath builded against me, and compassed me With gall and travail.
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He hath made me to dwell in dark places, As those that have been long dead.
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He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth; He hath made my chain heavy.
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Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.
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He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
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He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, As a lion in secret places.
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- 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.
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He hath bent His bow, and set me As a mark for the arrow.
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He hath caused the arrows of His quiver To enter into my reins.
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- 14 I am become a derision to all my people, And their song all the day.
- 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.
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He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.
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- 17 And my is removed far off from , I forgot prosperity.
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And I said: ‘My strength is perished, And mine expectation from .’
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Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, The wormwood and the gall.
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My hath them still in remembrance, And is bowed down within me.
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This I recall to my mind, Therefore have I .
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- 22 Surely Yahweh’S mercies are not consumed, Surely His compassions fail not.
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They are new every morning; Great is Thy faithfulness.
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- 24 The is my portion’, saith my ; ‘Therefore will I in Him.’
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The is good unto them that wait for Him, To the that seeketh Him.
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Psalm 27:14 Psalm 37:7 Psalm 40:1-5 Psalm 25:8 Isaiah 25:9 Psalm 27:8 2 Chronicles 19:3 Psalm 37:34 2 Chronicles 15:2 Psalm 39:7 Genesis 49:18 Micah 7:7-8 2 Chronicles 31:21 James 5:7 Psalm 130:5-6 Lamentations 3:26 Zephaniah 3:8 Isaiah 30:18 Isaiah 55:6 Psalm 119:2 Psalm 69:32 Psalm 61:5 Isaiah 26:9 Psalm 22:26 1 Thessalonians 1:10 2 Chronicles 30:19 Psalm 105:3 1 Chronicles 28:9 Isaiah 40:31 Hosea 10:12 Psalm 61:1 Isaiah 64:4 - 26 It is good that a man should quietly wait For the of .
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It is good for a man that he bear The yoke in his youth.
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Let him sit alone and keep silence, Because He hath laid it upon him.
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Let him put his mouth in the dust, If so be there may be .
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Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him Let him be filled full with reproach.
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- 31 For will not cast off For ever.
- 32 For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion According to the multitude of His mercies.
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For He doth not afflict willingly, Nor grieve the children of men.
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- 34 To crush under foot All the prisoners of the earth,
- 35 To turn aside the right of a man Before the of the Most High,
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To subvert a man in his cause, The approveth not.
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Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, When commandeth it not?
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Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not Evil and good?
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Wherefore doth a living man complain, A strong man because of his sins?
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Micah 7:9 Proverbs 19:3 Leviticus 26:43 Leviticus 26:41 Numbers 11:11 Jonah 4:8-9 Joshua 7:6-13 Numbers 16:41 Hebrews 12:5-12 Jeremiah 30:15 Numbers 17:12 2 Kings 6:32 2 Samuel 6:7-8 Genesis 4:13-14 Job 11:6 Isaiah 51:20 Isaiah 38:17-19 Ezra 9:13 Jonah 2:3-4 2 Kings 3:13 Revelation 16:9 Genesis 4:5-7 Lamentations 3:22 -
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Let us search and try our ways, And return to .
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Psalm 119:59 2 Corinthians 13:5 2 Chronicles 30:6 Psalm 139:23-24 Job 11:13-15 Haggai 1:5-9 1 Corinthians 11:28 Joel 2:12-13 Job 34:31-32 Isaiah 55:7 Hosea 14:1-3 Hosea 6:1 2 Chronicles 30:9 Ezekiel 18:28 Hosea 12:6 1 Corinthians 11:31 Deuteronomy 4:30 Psalm 4:4 Acts 26:20 Zechariah 1:3-4 1 Chronicles 15:12-13 -
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Let us lift up our with our hands Unto in the .
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- 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.
- 43 Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.
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Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that no prayer can pass through.
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- 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
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All our enemies have opened their mouth Wide against us.
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Terror and the pit are come upon us, Desolation and destruction.
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- 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, For the breach of the daughter of my people.
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Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, Without any intermission,
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Till look forth, And behold from .
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- 51 Mine eye affected my , Because of all the daughters of my city.
- 52 They have chased me sore like a bird, That are mine enemies without cause.
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, And have cast stones upon me.
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- 54 Waters flowed over my head; I said: ‘I am cut off.’
- 55 I called upon Thy , O , Out of the lowest dungeon.
- 56 Thou heardest my voice; hide not Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
- 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst: ‘Fear not.’
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O , Thou hast pleaded the causes of my ; Thou hast redeemed my life.
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- 59 O , Thou hast seen my wrong; Judge Thou my cause.
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance And all their devices against me.
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Thou hast heard their taunt, O , And all their devices against me;
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The lips of those that rose up against me, And their muttering against me all the day.
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Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
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Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O , According to the work of their hands.
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Thou wilt give them hardness of , Thy unto them.
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- 66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them From under the of .