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Lamentations 3

Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX

1 ALEPH. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me.

2 He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not light.

3 Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.

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

5 BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail .

6 He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.

7 He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen heavy.

8 GIMEL. Yea, I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

9 DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;

10 he has troubled me, a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me a lion in secret places.

11 He pursued after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me.

12 HE. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

14 I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.

15 VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.

16 And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.

17 He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity.

18 Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.

19 ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;

20 and my soul shall meditate with me.

21 This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.

22 HETH. the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity , O Lord, early month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted.

23 new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him.

25 TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him

26 good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

27 TETH. good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth.

28 He will sit alone, and be silent, because he has borne upon him.

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30 JOD. He will give cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches.

31 For the Lord will not reject for ever.

32 CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and according to the abundance of his mercy.

33 He has not answered from his heart, though he has brought low the children of a man.

34 LAMED. To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 to turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High,

36 to condemn a man in his judgment, the Lord has not given commandment.

37 Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it.

38 Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good.

39 MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin?

40 NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.

41 Let us lift up our hearts with hand to the lofty One in heaven.

42 We have sinned, we have transgressed; and thou hast not pardoned.

43 SAMECH. Thou has visited in wrath, and driven us away: thou has slain, thou has not pitied.

44 Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind,

45 and be cast off. AIN. Thou hast set us in the midst of the nations.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

47 Fear and wrath are come upon us, suspense and destruction.

48 Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 PHE. Mine eye is drowned , and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest,

50 until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

51 Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city.

52 TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,

53 and laid a stone upon me.

54 Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.

55 KOPH. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon.

56 Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication.

57 Thou drewest nigh to my help: in the day wherein I called upon thee thou saidst to me, Fear not.

58 RECHS. O Lord, thou has pleaded the causes of my soul; thou has redeemed my life.

59 Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou hast judged my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, on all their devices against me.

61 CHSEN. Thou hast heard their reproach all their devices against me;

62 the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day;

63 their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes.

64 Thou wilt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

65 THAU. Thou wilt give them a covering, the grief of my heart.

66 Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.

New International Version NIV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13 He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.

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

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

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

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

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

19 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.

20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

22 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

24 I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

28 Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.

29 Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope.

30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.

31 For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.

32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.

33 For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.

34 To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,

35 to deny people their rights before the Most High,

36 to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?

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 both calamities and good things come?

39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:

42 “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.

43 “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.

44 You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

46 “All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.

47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”

48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

49 My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,

50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

51 What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.

52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.

53 They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;

54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

55 I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit.

56 You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”

57 You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”

58 You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.

59 LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!

60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.

61 LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

62 what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.

63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.

64 Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done.

65 Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!

66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.