Lamentations 3:1-9

English Standard Version

Great Is Your Faithfulness

3 ^(A)I am the man who has seen affliction
    under the ^(B)rod of his wrath;
²he has driven and brought me
    ^(C)into darkness without any light;
³surely against me he turns his hand
    again and again the whole day long.

⁴He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
    ^(D)he has broken my bones;
⁵^(E)he has besieged and enveloped me
    with ^(F)bitterness and tribulation;
⁶^(G)he has made me dwell in darkness
    like the dead of long ago.

⁷^(H)He has walled me about so that ^(I)I cannot escape;
    he has made my chains heavy;
⁸though ^(J)I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;
⁹^(K)he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
    he has made my paths crooked.