Lamentations 3:1-33

New King James Version

The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope

3 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
²He has led me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
³Surely He has turned His hand against me
Time and time again throughout the day.

⁴He has aged ^(A)my flesh and my skin,
And ^(B)broken my bones.
⁵He has besieged me
And surrounded me with bitterness and ^[a]woe.
⁶^(C)He has set me in dark places
Like the dead of long ago.

⁷^(D)He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;
He has made my chain heavy.
⁸Even ^(E)when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.
⁹He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.

¹⁰^(F)He has been to me a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in ^[b]ambush.
¹¹He has turned aside my ways and ^(G)torn me in pieces;
He has made me desolate.
¹²He has bent His bow
And ^(H)set me up as a target for the arrow.

¹³He has caused ^(I)the ^[c]arrows of His quiver
To pierce my ^[d]loins.
¹⁴I have become the ^(J)ridicule of all my people—
^(K)Their taunting song all the day.
¹⁵^(L)He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drink wormwood.

¹⁶He has also broken my teeth ^(M)with gravel,
And ^[e]covered me with ashes.
¹⁷You have moved my soul far from peace;
I have forgotten ^[f]prosperity.
¹⁸^(N)And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the Lord.”

¹⁹Remember my affliction and roaming,
^(O)The wormwood and the ^[g]gall.
²⁰My soul still remembers
And ^[h]sinks within me.
²¹This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have ^(P)hope.

²²^(Q)Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions ^(R)fail not.
²³They are new ^(S)every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
²⁴“The Lord is my ^(T)portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I ^(U)hope in Him!”

²⁵The Lord is good to those who ^(V)wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.
²⁶It is good that one should ^(W)hope ^(X)and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.
²⁷^(Y)It is good for a man to bear
The yoke in his youth.

²⁸^(Z)Let him sit alone and keep silent,
Because God has laid it on him;
²⁹^(AA)Let him put his mouth in the dust—
There may yet be hope.
³⁰^(AB)Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him,
And be full of reproach.

³¹^(AC)For the Lord will not cast off forever.
³²Though He causes grief,
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
³³For ^(AD)He does not afflict ^[i]willingly,
Nor grieve the children of men.

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Footnotes

Lamentations 3:5 hardship or weariness
Lamentations 3:10 Lit. secret places
Lamentations 3:13 Lit. sons of
Lamentations 3:13 Lit. kidneys
Lamentations 3:16 Lit. bent me down in
Lamentations 3:17 Lit. good
Lamentations 3:19 bitterness
Lamentations 3:20 Lit. bowed down
Lamentations 3:33 Lit. from His heart

John 13:1-35

New King James Version

Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet

13 Now ^(A)before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that ^(B)His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He ^(C)loved them to the end.

²And ^[a]supper being ended, ^(D)the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, ³Jesus, knowing ^(E)that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He ^(F)had come from God and ^(G)was going to God, ⁴^(H)rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. ⁵After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. ⁶Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, ^(I)“Lord, are You washing my feet?”

⁷Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you ^(J)do not understand now, ^(K)but you will know after this.”

⁸Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”

Jesus answered him, ^(L)“If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

⁹Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”

¹⁰Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and ^(M)you are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹For ^(N)He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”

¹²So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you ^[b]know what I have done to you? ¹³^(O)You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. ¹⁴^(P)If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, ^(Q)you also ought to wash one another’s feet. ¹⁵For ^(R)I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. ¹⁶^(S)Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷^(T)If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Jesus Identifies His Betrayer^(U)

¹⁸“I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the ^(V)Scripture may be fulfilled, ^(W)‘He who eats ^[c]bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’ ¹⁹^(X)Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He. ²⁰^(Y)Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

²¹^(Z)When Jesus had said these things, ^(AA)He was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, ^(AB)one of you will betray Me.” ²²Then the disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom He spoke.

²³Now ^(AC)there was ^[d]leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. ²⁴Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask who it was of whom He spoke.

²⁵Then, leaning ^[e]back on Jesus’ breast, he said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”

²⁶Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it.” And having dipped the bread, He gave it to ^(AD)Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. ²⁷^(AE)Now after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.” ²⁸But no one at the table knew for what reason He said this to him. ²⁹For some thought, because ^(AF)Judas had the money box, that Jesus had said to him, “Buy those things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

³⁰Having received the piece of bread, he then went out immediately. And it was night.

The New Commandment

³¹So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, ^(AG)“Now the Son of Man is glorified, and ^(AH)God is glorified in Him. ³²If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and ^(AI)glorify Him immediately. ³³Little children, I shall be with you a ^(AJ)little while longer. You will seek Me; ^(AK)and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ so now I say to you. ³⁴^(AL)A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. ³⁵^(AM)By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”