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Lamentations 3:7-17
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Lamentations 3:7-17
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1.
S
Job 3:23
2.
Jeremiah 40:4
3.
Psalms 5:2
4.
ver 44; S
Deuteronomy 1:45
; S
Job 30:20
;
Psalms 22:2
5.
S
Job 19:8
6.
S
Job 9:24
; S
Isaiah 63:17
;
Hosea 2:6
7.
S
Job 10:16
8.
Hosea 13:8
;
Amos 5:18-19
9.
Hosea 6:1
10.
S
Lamentations 2:4
11.
Job 7:20
12.
S
Job 16:12
;
Psalms 7:12-13
;
Psalms 38:2
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Job 16:13
14.
Job 6:4
15.
S
Genesis 38:23
;
Psalms 22:6-7
;
Jeremiah 20:7
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Job 17:2
17.
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Job 30:9
18.
ver 19;
Jeremiah 9:15
19.
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Proverbs 20:17
20.
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Psalms 7:5
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