Lamentations 3:1
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God’s Steadfast Love Endures
3 I am one who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s[a] wrath;
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:1 Heb his
Lamentations 3:2
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2 he has driven and brought me
into darkness without any light;
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3 against me alone he turns his hand,
again and again, all day long.
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4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away,
and broken my bones;
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5 he has besieged and enveloped me
with bitterness and tribulation;
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6 he has made me sit in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
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7 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
he has put heavy chains on me;
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8 though I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
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9 he has blocked my ways with hewn stones,
he has made my paths crooked.
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10 He is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;
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11 he led me off my way and tore me to pieces;
he has made me desolate;
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12 he bent his bow and set me
as a mark for his arrow.
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13 He shot into my vitals
the arrows of his quiver;
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14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people,
the object of their taunt-songs all day long.
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15 He has filled me with bitterness,
he has sated me with wormwood.
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16 He has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and made me cower in ashes;
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17 my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is;
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18 so I say, “Gone is my glory,
and all that I had hoped for from the Lord.”
Lamentations 3:19
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19 The thought of my affliction and my homelessness
is wormwood and gall!
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20 My soul continually thinks of it
and is bowed down within me.
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21 But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
Lamentations 3:22
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22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,[a]
his mercies never come to an end;
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:22 Syr Tg: Heb Lord, we are not cut off
Lamentations 3:23
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23 they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:24
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24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”
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