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{Lamentations 3:1} I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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{Lamentations 3:2} He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.
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{Lamentations 3:3} Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.
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{Lamentations 3:4} My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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{Lamentations 3:5} He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.
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{Lamentations 3:6} He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.
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{Lamentations 3:7} He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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{Lamentations 3:8} Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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{Lamentations 3:9} He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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{Lamentations 3:10} He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
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{Lamentations 3:11} He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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{Lamentations 3:12} He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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{Lamentations 3:13} He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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{Lamentations 3:14} I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.
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{Lamentations 3:15} He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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{Lamentations 3:16} He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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{Lamentations 3:17} And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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{Lamentations 3:18} And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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{Lamentations 3:19} Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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{Lamentations 3:20} My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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{Lamentations 3:21} This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
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{Lamentations 3:22} [It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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{Lamentations 3:23} [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
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{Lamentations 3:24} The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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{Lamentations 3:25} The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
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{Lamentations 3:26} [It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
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{Lamentations 3:27} [It is] good for a man that he
bear the yoke in his youth.
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{Lamentations 3:28} He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
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{Lamentations 3:29} He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
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{Lamentations 3:30} He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
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{Lamentations 3:31} For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
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{Lamentations 3:32} But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
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{Lamentations 3:33} For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
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{Lamentations 3:34} To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
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{Lamentations 3:35} To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
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{Lamentations 3:36} To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
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{Lamentations 3:37} Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?
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{Lamentations 3:38} Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
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{Lamentations 3:39} Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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{Lamentations 3:40} Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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{Lamentations 3:41} Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.
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{Lamentations 3:42} We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
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{Lamentations 3:43} Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
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{Lamentations 3:44} Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.
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{Lamentations 3:45} Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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{Lamentations 3:46} All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
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{Lamentations 3:47} Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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{Lamentations 3:48} Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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{Lamentations 3:49} Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
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{Lamentations 3:50} Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
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{Lamentations 3:51} Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
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{Lamentations 3:52} Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
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{Lamentations 3:53} They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
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{Lamentations 3:54} Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off.
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{Lamentations 3:55} I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
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{Lamentations 3:56} Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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{Lamentations 3:57} Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
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{Lamentations 3:58} O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
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{Lamentations 3:59} O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
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{Lamentations 3:60} Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.
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{Lamentations 3:61} Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;
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{Lamentations 3:62} The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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{Lamentations 3:63} Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.
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{Lamentations 3:64} Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
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{Lamentations 3:65} Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
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{Lamentations 3:66} Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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