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Lamentations 3

Jeremiah Shares Israel's Affliction

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I am the man who has  aseen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.

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He has driven me and made me walk In  adarkness and not in light.

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Surely against me He has  aturned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

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He has caused my  aflesh and my skin to waste away, He has  bbroken my bones.

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He has  abesieged and encompassed me with  bbitterness and hardship.

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In  adark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.

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He has  awalled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my  1 bchain heavy.

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Even when I cry out and call for help, He  ashuts out my prayer.

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He has  ablocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

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He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.

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He has turned aside my ways and  atorn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

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He  abent His bow And  bset me as a target for the arrow.

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He made the  1arrows of His  aquiver To enter into my  2inward parts.

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I have become a  alaughingstock to all my people, Their mocking  bsong all the day.

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He has  afilled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

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He has  abroken my teeth with  bgravel; He has made me cower in the  cdust.

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My soul has been rejected  afrom peace; I have forgotten  1happiness.

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So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my  ahope from the LORD."

Hope of Relief in God's Mercy

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Remember my affliction and my  1wandering, the  awormwood and bitterness.

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Surely  amy soul remembers And is  bbowed down within me.

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This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have  ahope.

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The LORD'S  alovingkindnesses  1indeed never cease,  bFor His compassions never fail.

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They are new  aevery morning; Great is  bYour faithfulness.

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"The LORD is my  aportion," says my soul, "Therefore I  bhave hope in Him."

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The LORD is good to those who  await for Him, To the  1person who  bseeks Him.

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It is good that he  awaits silently For the salvation of the LORD.

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It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth.

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Let him  asit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him.

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Let him  1put his mouth in the  adust, Perhaps there is  bhope.

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Let him give his  acheek to  1the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach.

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For the Lord will  anot reject forever,

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For if He causes grief, Then He will have  acompassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.

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For He  adoes not afflict  1willingly Or grieve the sons of men.

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To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the  1land,

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To  1deprive a man of  ajustice In the presence of the Most High,

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To  1 adefraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not  2approve.

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Who is  1there who speaks and it  acomes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it?

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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That  1 aboth good and ill go forth?

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Why should any living  1mortal, or any man, Offer  acomplaint  2in view of his sins?

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Let us  aexamine and probe our ways, And let us return to the LORD.

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We  alift up our heart  1and hands Toward God in heaven;

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We have  atransgressed and rebelled, You have  bnot pardoned.

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You have covered Yourself with  aanger And  bpursued us; You have slain and  chave not spared.

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You have  acovered Yourself with a cloud So that  bno prayer can pass through.

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You have made us mere  aoffscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

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All our enemies have  aopened their mouths against us.

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 aPanic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;

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My  1 aeyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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My eyes pour down  aunceasingly, Without stopping,

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Until the LORD  alooks down And sees from heaven.

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My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

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My enemies  awithout cause Hunted me down  blike a bird;

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They have silenced  1me  ain the pit And have  2 bplaced a stone on me.

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Waters flowed  aover my head; I said, "I am cut off!"

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I  acalled on Your name, O LORD, Out of the lowest pit.

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You have  aheard my voice, " bDo not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help."

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You  adrew near when I called on You; You said, " bDo not fear!"

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O Lord, You  ahave pleaded my soul's cause; You have  bredeemed my life.

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O LORD, You have  aseen my oppression;  bJudge my case.

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You have seen all their vengeance, All their  aschemes against me.

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You have heard their  areproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me.

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The  alips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.

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Look on their  asitting and their rising;  bI am their mocking song.

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You will  arecompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.

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You will give them  1 ahardness of heart, Your curse will be on them.

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You will  apursue them in anger and destroy them From under the  bheavens of the LORD!



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