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【Lamentations】Chapter 3  << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

3:1 I am a man who knows affliction from the rod of his anger,
3:2 One whom he has led and forced to walk in darkness, not in the light;
3:3 Against me alone he brings back his hand again and again all the day.
3:4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin, he has broken my bones;
3:5 He has beset me round about with poverty and weariness;
3:6 He has left me to dwell in the dark like those long dead.
3:7 He has hemmed me in with no escape and weighed me down with chains;
3:8 Even when I cry out for help, he stops my prayer;
3:9 He has blocked my ways with fitted stones, and turned my paths aside.
3:10 A lurking bear he has been to me, a lion in ambush!
3:11 He deranged my ways, set me astray, left me desolate.
3:12 He bent his bow, and set me up as the target for his arrow.
3:13 He pierces my sides with shafts from his quiver.
3:14 I have become a laughingstock for all nations, their taunt all the day long;
3:15 He has sated me with bitter food, made me drink my fill of wormwood.
3:16 He has broken my teeth with gravel, pressed my face in the dust;
3:17 My soul is deprived of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is;
3:18 I tell myself my future is lost, all that I hoped for from the LORD.
3:19 The thought of my homeless poverty is wormwood and gall;
3:20 Remembering it over and over leaves my soul downcast within me.
3:21 But I will call this to mind, as my reason to have hope:
3:22 The favors of the LORD are not exhausted, his mercies are not spent;
3:23 They are renewed each morning, so great is his faithfulness.
3:24 My portion is the LORD, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
3:25 Good is the LORD to one who waits for him, to the soul that seeks him;
3:26 It is good to hope in silence for the saving help of the LORD.
3:27It is good for a man to bear the yoke from his youth.
3:28 Let him sit alone and in silence, when it is laid upon him.
3:29 Let him put his mouth to the dust; there may yet be hope.
3:30 Let him offer his cheek to be struck, let him be filled with disgrace.
3:31 For the Lord’s rejection does not last forever;
3:32 Though he punishes, he takes pity, in the abundance of his mercies;
3:33 He has no joy in afflicting or grieving the sons of men.
3:34 When anyone tramples underfoot all the prisoners in the land,
3:35 When he distorts men’s rights in the very sight of the Most High,
3:36 When he presses a crooked claim, the Lord does not look on unconcerned.
3:37 Who commands so that it comes to pass, except the Lord ordains it;
3:38 Except it proceeds from the mouth of the Most High, whether the thing be good or bad!
3:39 Why should any living man complain, any mortal, in the face of his sins?
3:40 Let us search and examine our ways that we may return to the LORD!
3:41 Let us reach out our hearts toward God in heaven!
3:42 We have sinned and rebelled; you have not forgiven us.
3:43 You veiled yourself in wrath and pursued us, you slew us and took no pity;
3:44 You wrapped yourself in a cloud which prayer could not pierce.
3:45 You have made us offscourings and refuse among the nations.
3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us;
3:47 Terror and the pit have been our lot, desolation and destruction;
3:48 My eyes run with streams of water over the downfall of the daughter of my people.
3:49 My eyes flow without ceasing, there is no respite,
3:50 Till the LORD from heaven looks down and sees.
3:51 My eyes torment my soul at the sight of all the daughters of my city.
3:52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me down like a bird;
3:53 They struck me down alive in the pit, and sealed me in with a stone.
3:54 The waters flowed over my head, and I said, "I am lost!"
3:55 I called upon your name, O LORD, from the bottom of the pit;
3:56 You heard me call, "Let not your ear be deaf to my cry for help!"
3:57 You came to my aid when I called to you; you said, "Have no fear!"
3:58 You defended me in mortal danger, you redeemed my life.
3:59 You see, O LORD, how I am wronged; do me justice!
3:60 You see all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me.
3:61 You hear their insults, O LORD, (all their plots against me),
3:62 The whispered murmurings of my foes, against me all the day;
3:63 Whether they sit or stand, see, I am their taunt song.
3:64 Requite them as they deserve, O LORD, according to their deeds;
3:65 Give them hardness of heart, as your curse upon them;
3:66 Pursue them in wrath and destroy them from under your heavens!
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