Lamentations 3

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WEB KJV

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WEBI am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
KJVI am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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WEBHe has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
KJVHe hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
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WEBSurely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
KJVSurely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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WEBHe has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
KJVMy flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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WEBHe has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
KJVHe hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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WEBHe has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
KJVHe hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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WEBHe has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
KJVHe hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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WEBYes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
KJVAlso when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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WEBHe has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
KJVHe hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
10
WEBHe is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
KJVHe was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
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WEBHe has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
KJVHe hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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WEBHe has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
KJVHe hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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WEBHe has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
KJVHe hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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WEBI have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
KJVI was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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WEBHe has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
KJVHe hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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WEBHe has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
KJVHe hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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WEBYou have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
KJVAnd thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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WEBI said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
KJVAnd I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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WEBRemember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
KJVRemembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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WEBMy soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
KJVMy soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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WEBThis I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
KJVThis I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
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WEBIt is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
KJVIt is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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WEBThey are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
KJVThey are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
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WEB“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
KJVThe LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
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WEBYahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
KJVThe LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
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WEBIt is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
KJVIt is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
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WEBIt is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
KJVIt is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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WEBLet him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
KJVHe sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
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WEBLet him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
KJVHe putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
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WEBLet him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
KJVHe giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
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WEBFor the Lord will not cast off forever.
KJVFor the Lord will not cast off for ever:
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WEBFor though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
KJVBut though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
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WEBFor he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
KJVFor he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
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WEBTo crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
KJVTo crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
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WEBto turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
KJVTo turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
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WEBto subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
KJVTo subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
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WEBWho is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
KJVWho is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
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WEBDoesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
KJVOut of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
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WEBWhy should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
KJVWherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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WEBLet us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
KJVLet us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
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WEBLet’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
KJVLet us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
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WEB“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
KJVWe have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
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WEB“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
KJVThou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
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WEBYou have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
KJVThou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
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WEBYou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
KJVThou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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WEB“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
KJVAll our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
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WEBTerror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
KJVFear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
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WEBMy eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
KJVMine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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WEBMy eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,
KJVMine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
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WEBuntil Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.
KJVTill the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
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WEBMy eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
KJVMine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
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WEBThey have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
KJVMine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
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WEBThey have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
KJVThey have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
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WEBWaters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
KJVWaters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
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WEBI called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
KJVI called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
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WEBYou heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
KJVThou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
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WEBYou came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
KJVThou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
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WEBLord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
KJVO Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
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WEBYahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
KJVO LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
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WEBYou have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
KJVThou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
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WEBYou have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,
KJVThou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
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WEBthe lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
KJVThe lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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WEBYou see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
KJVBehold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
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WEBYou will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
KJVRender unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
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WEBYou will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
KJVGive them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
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WEBYou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
KJVPersecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

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