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Lamentations 3:3-13

3 Surely against me is He turned; He turneth His hand against me all the day.

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

4 My flesh and my skin hath He made old; He hath broken my bones.

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

5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

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

6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old.

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

7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out; He hath made my chain heavy.

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

8 Also when I cry and shout, He shutteth out my prayer.

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

9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He hath made my paths crooked.

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

10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

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

11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.

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

12 He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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

13 He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.

13 He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.