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Lamentations 3:37-66

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37 Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, When the Lord has not commanded it?
37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That woe and well-being proceed?
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
39 Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?
39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
40 Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord;
40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
41 Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven.
41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
42 We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.
42 “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
43 You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.
43 “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
45 You have made us an offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.
45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46 All our enemies Have opened their mouths against us.
46 “All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
47 Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.
47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
48 My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
49 My eyes flow and do not cease, Without interruption,
49 My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
50 Till the Lord from heaven Looks down and sees.
50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.
51 What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
52 My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird.
52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
53 They silenced my life in the pit And threw stones at me.
53 They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
54 The waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"
54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.
55 I called on Your name, O Lord, From the lowest pit.
55 I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit.
56 You have heard my voice: "Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help."
56 You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”
57 You drew near on the day I called on You, And said, "Do not fear!"
57 You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”
58 O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul; You have redeemed my life.
58 You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.
59 O Lord, You have seen how I am wronged; Judge my case.
59 LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O Lord, All their schemes against me,
61 LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62 The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.
62 what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
63 Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.
63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
64 Repay them, O Lord, According to the work of their hands.
64 Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done.
65 Give them a veiled heart; Your curse be upon them!
65 Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
66 In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord.
66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
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