Lamentations 3:13-27
New International Version
13 He pierced(A) my heart
with arrows from his quiver.(B)
14 I became the laughingstock(C) of all my people;(D)
they mock me in song(E) all day long.
15 He has filled me with bitter herbs
and given me gall to drink.(F)
16 He has broken my teeth with gravel;(G)
he has trampled me in the dust.(H)
17 I have been deprived of peace;
I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 So I say, “My splendor is gone
and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”(I)
19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness(J) and the gall.(K)
20 I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast(L) within me.(M)
21 Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
Lamentations 3:13-27
King James Version
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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