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Lamentations 3:14-34

14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

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

15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

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

16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

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

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

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

18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

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

19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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

20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

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

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

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

22 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

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 thy faithfulness.

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

24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

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

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

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

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

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

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

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

28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

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

29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

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

30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

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

31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

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

32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

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

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

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

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

34 To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,

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