Parallel Bible results for "lamentations 3:1-7"

Lamentations 3:1-7

1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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

2 Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.

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

3 Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.

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

4 My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.

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

5 He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.

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

6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.

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

7 He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

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

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