Lamentations 3:1
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The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope
3 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
Psalm 88:7
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7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all (A)Your waves. Selah
Psalm 88:15-16
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15 I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth;
I suffer Your terrors;
I am distraught.
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me;
Your terrors have [a]cut me off.
Footnotes
- Psalm 88:16 destroyed me
Job 19:21
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21 “Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends,
For the hand of God has struck me!
Lamentations 1:12-14
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12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who [a]pass by?
Behold and see
(A)If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
Which has been brought on me,
Which the Lord has inflicted
In the day of His fierce anger.
13 “From above He has sent fire into my bones,
And it overpowered them;
He has (B)spread a net for my feet
And turned me back;
He has made me desolate
And faint all the day.
14 “The(C) yoke of my transgressions was [b]bound;
They were woven together by His hands,
And thrust upon my neck.
He made my strength fail;
The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:12 Lit. pass by this way
- Lamentations 1:14 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. watched over
Jeremiah 38:6
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6 (A)So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah [a]the king’s son, which was in the court of the prison, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire. So Jeremiah sank in the mire.
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- Jeremiah 38:6 Or son of Hammelech
Jeremiah 20:14-18
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14 (A)Cursed be the day in which I was born!
Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
15 Let the man be cursed
Who brought news to my father, saying,
“A male child has been born to you!”
Making him very glad.
16 And let that man be like the cities
Which the Lord (B)overthrew, and did not relent;
Let him (C)hear the cry in the morning
And the shouting at noon,
17 (D)Because he did not kill me from the womb,
That my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always enlarged with me.
18 (E)Why did I come forth from the womb to (F)see [a]labor and sorrow,
That my days should be consumed with shame?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 20:18 toil
Jeremiah 15:17-18
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17 (A)I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers,
Nor did I rejoice;
I sat alone because of Your hand,
For You have filled me with indignation.
18 Why is my (B)pain perpetual
And my wound incurable,
Which refuses to be healed?
Will You surely be to me (C)like an unreliable stream,
As waters that [a]fail?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 15:18 Or cannot be trusted
Isaiah 53:3
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3 (A)He is despised and [a]rejected by men,
A Man of [b]sorrows and (B)acquainted with [c]grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and (C)we did not esteem Him.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
- Isaiah 53:3 Lit. pains
- Isaiah 53:3 Lit. sickness
Psalm 71:20
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20 (A)You, who have shown me great and severe troubles,
(B)Shall revive me again,
And bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
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