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Lamentations 3

Good News Translation GNT

1 I am one who knows what it is to be punished by God.

2 He drove me deeper and deeper into darkness

3 And beat me again and again with merciless blows.

4 He has left my flesh open and raw, and has broken my bones.

5 He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.

6 He has forced me to live in the stagnant darkness of death.

7 He has bound me in chains; I am a prisoner with no hope of escape.

8 I cry aloud for help, but God refuses to listen;

9 I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn.

10 He waited for me like a bear; he pounced on me like a lion.

11 He chased me off the road, tore me to pieces, and left me.

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

13 He shot his arrows deep into my body.

14 People laugh at me all day long; I am a joke to them all.

15 Bitter suffering is all he has given me for food and drink.

16 He rubbed my face in the ground and broke my teeth on rocks.

17 I have forgotten what health and peace and happiness are.

18 I do not have much longer to live; my hope in the Lord is gone.

19 The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.

20 I think of it constantly, and my spirit is depressed.

21 Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing:

22 The Lord's unfailing love and mercy still continue,

23 Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise.

24 The Lord is all I have, and so in him I put my hope.

25 The Lord is good to everyone who trusts in him,

26 So it is best for us to wait in patience - to wait for him to save us -

27 And it is best to learn this patience in our youth.

28 When we suffer, we should sit alone in silent patience;

29 We should bow in submission, for there may still be hope.

30 Though beaten and insulted, we should accept it all.

31 The Lord is merciful and will not reject us forever.

32 He may bring us sorrow, but his love for us is sure and strong.

33 He takes no pleasure in causing us grief or pain.

34 The Lord knows when our spirits are crushed in prison;

35 He knows when we are denied the rights he gave us;

36 When justice is perverted in court, he knows.

37 The will of the Lord alone is always carried out.

38 Good and evil alike take place at his command.

39 Why should we ever complain when we are punished for our sin?

40 Let us examine our ways and turn back to the Lord.

41 Let us open our hearts to God in heaven and pray,

42 "We have sinned and rebelled, and you, O Lord, have not forgiven us.

43 "You pursued us and killed us; your mercy was hidden by your anger,

44 By a cloud of fury too thick for our prayers to get through.

45 You have made us the garbage dump of the world.

46 "We are insulted and mocked by all our enemies.

47 We have been through disaster and ruin; we live in danger and fear.

48 My eyes flow with rivers of tears at the destruction of my people.

49 "My tears will pour out in a ceaseless stream

50 Until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees us.

51 My heart is grieved when I see what has happened to the women of the city.

52 "I was trapped like a bird by enemies who had no cause to hate me.

53 They threw me alive into a pit and closed the opening with a stone.

54 Water began to close over me, and I thought death was near.

55 "From the bottom of the pit, O Lord, I cried out to you,

56 And when I begged you to listen to my cry, you heard.

57 You answered me and told me not to be afraid.

58 "You came to my rescue, Lord, and saved my life.

59 Judge in my favor; you know the wrongs done against me.

60 You know how my enemies hate me and how they plot against me.

61 "You have heard them insult me, O Lord; you know all their plots.

62 All day long they talk about me and make their plans.

63 From morning till night they make fun of me.

64 "Punish them for what they have done, O Lord;

65 Curse them and fill them with despair!

66 Hunt them down and wipe them off the earth!"

World English Bible WEB

1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

3 Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.

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

5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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

7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.

11 He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

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

13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

14 I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

17 You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.

18 I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.”

19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

21 This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

22 It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.

23 They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

24 “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

25 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.

32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

39 Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

42 “We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.

43 “You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

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

45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.

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

47 Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”

48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

50 until the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven.

51 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

54 Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

55 I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.

56 You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

57 You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.

59 LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.

61 You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their plans against me,

62 the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

63 You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.

64 You will pay them back, LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.