Lamentations 3:1-9

Lamentations 2 Lamentations 4

Lamentations 3:1-9 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

God’s Steadfast Love Endures

3 I am one who has seen affliction
    under the rod of God’s^[a] wrath;
²he has driven and brought me
    into darkness without any light;
³against me alone he turns his hand,
    again and again, all day long.

⁴He has made my flesh and my skin waste away,
    and broken my bones;
⁵he has besieged and enveloped me
    with bitterness and tribulation;
⁶he has made me sit in darkness
    like the dead of long ago.

⁷He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
    he has put heavy chains on me;
⁸though I call and cry for help,
    he shuts out my prayer;
⁹he has blocked my ways with hewn stones,
    he has made my paths crooked.

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Lamentations 3:1 Heb his

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Lamentations 3:19-24

Lamentations 2 Lamentations 4

Lamentations 3:19-24 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

¹⁹The thought of my affliction and my homelessness
    is wormwood and gall!
²⁰My soul continually thinks of it
    and is bowed down within me.
²¹But this I call to mind,
    and therefore I have hope:

²²The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,^[a]
    his mercies never come to an end;
²³they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.
²⁴“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
    “therefore I will hope in him.”