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Lamentations 3:1-36

New International Reader's Version NIRV

1 I am a man who has suffered greatly. The LORD has used the Babylonians to punish our people.

2 He has driven me away. He has made me walk in darkness instead of light.

3 He has turned his powerful hand against me. He has done it again and again, all day long.

4 He has worn my body out. He has broken my bones.

5 He has surrounded me and attacked me. He has made me suffer bitterly. He has made things hard for me.

6 He has made me live in darkness like those who are dead and gone.

7 He has built walls around me. I can't escape. He has put heavy chains on me.

8 I call out and cry for help. But he won't listen to me when I pray.

9 He has put up a stone wall to block my way. He has made my paths crooked.

10 He has been like a bear waiting to attack me. He has been like a lion hiding in the bushes.

11 He has dragged me off the path. He has torn me to pieces. And he has left me helpless.

12 He has gotten his bow ready to use. He has shot his arrows at me.

13 The arrows from his bag have gone through my heart.

14 My people laugh at me all the time. They sing and make fun of me all day long.

15 The LORD has made my life bitter. He has made me suffer bitterly.

16 He made me chew stones that broke my teeth. He has walked all over me in the dust.

17 I have lost all hope of ever having any peace. I've forgotten what good times are like.

18 So I say, "My glory has faded away. My hope in the LORD is gone."

19 I remember how I suffered and wandered. I remember how bitter my life was.

20 I remember it very well. My spirit is very sad deep down inside me.

21 But here is something else I remember. And it gives me hope.

22 The LORD loves us very much. So we haven't been completely destroyed. His loving concern never fails.

23 His great love is new every morning. Lord, how faithful you are!

24 I say to myself, "The LORD is everything I will ever need. So I will put my hope in him."

25 The LORD is good to those who put their hope in him. He is good to those who look to him.

26 It is good when people wait quietly for the LORD to save them.

27 It is good for a man to carry a heavy load of suffering while he is young.

28 Let him sit alone and not say anything. The LORD has placed that load on him.

29 Let him bury his face in the dust. There might still be hope for him.

30 Let him turn his cheek toward those who would slap him. Let him be filled with shame.

31 The Lord doesn't turn his back on people forever.

32 He might bring suffering. But he will also show loving concern. How great his faithful love is!

33 He doesn't want to bring pain or suffering to people.

34 Every time people crush prisoners under their feet, the Lord knows all about it.

35 When people refuse to give a man his rights, the Most High God knows it.

36 When people don't treat a man fairly, the Lord knows it.

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?