Parallel Bible results for "lamentations 3:1-18"

Lamentations 3:1-18

1 I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.

1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of the LORD’s wrath.

2 He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;

3 Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

4 He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.

4 He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.

5 He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.

5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6 In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

7 He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.

7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.

8 Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.

8 Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.

9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

9 He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.

10 He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.

10 Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,

11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

11 he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.

12 He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.

12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.

13 He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.

13 He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.

14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.

14 I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.

15 He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.

16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.

16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.

17 My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness.

17 I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

18 So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD ."

18 So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”