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Lamentations 3:1-10

1 Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

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

2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

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

3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

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

4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

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

5 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.

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

6 Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.

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

7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

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

8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

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

9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

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

10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.

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

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