Lamentations 3
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Lamentations 3
God’s Steadfast Love Endures
1 #
Job 19.21; Jer 15.17, 18 I am one who has seen affliction
under the rod of God’s#3.1 Heb his wrath;
2he has driven and brought me
into darkness without any light;
3 #
Isa 5.25
against me alone he turns his hand,
again and again, all day long.
4 #
Job 16.8; Ps 51.8; Isa 38.13; Jer 50.17 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
he has broken my bones;
5he has besieged and enveloped me
with bitterness and tribulation;
6 #
Ps 88.5, 6 he has made me sit in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
7 #
Job 3.23; Jer 40.4 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
he has put heavy chains on me;
8 #
Job 30.20; Ps 22.2 though I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
9he has blocked my ways with hewn stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
10 #
Job 10.16; Isa 38.13 He is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;
11he led me off my way and tore me to pieces;
he has made me desolate;
12 #
Job 7.20; Ps 7.12, 13 he bent his bow and set me
as a mark for his arrow.
13He shot into my vitals
the arrows of his quiver;
14 #
Job 30.9; Jer 20.7 I have become the laughingstock of all my people,
the object of their taunt songs all day long.
15He has filled me with bitterness;
he has sated me with wormwood.
16He has made my teeth grind on gravel;
he has made me cower in ashes;
17my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is;
18so I say, “Gone is my glory
and all that I had hoped for from the Lord.”
19 #
Jer 9.15
The thought of my affliction and my homelessness
is wormwood and gall!
20 #
Ps 42.5, 6, 11 My soul continually thinks of it
and is bowed down within me.
21But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
22 #
Mal 3.6
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,#3.22 Syr Tg: Heb Lord, we are not cut off
his mercies never come to an end;
23 #
Zeph 3.5
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 #
Ps 16.5; 33.18 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”
25 #
Isa 25.9; 26.9; 30.18 The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul that seeks him.
26 #
Ps 37.7; 40.1; Isa 30.15 It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
27 #
Ps 94.12
It is good for one to bear
the yoke in youth,
28 #
Jer 15.17
to sit alone in silence
when the Lord#3.28 Heb he has imposed it,
29to put one’s mouth to the dust
(there may yet be hope),
30 #
Isa 50.6; Mt 5.39 to give one’s cheek to the smiter
and be filled with insults.
31 #
Ps 94.14
For the Lord will not
reject forever.
32 #
Ps 78.38; Hos 11.8 Although he causes grief, he will have compassion
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
33 #
Ezek 33.11; Heb 12.10 for he does not willingly afflict
or grieve anyone.
34When all the prisoners of the land
are crushed under foot,
35 #
Ps 140.12
when justice is perverted
in the presence of the Most High,
36 #
Hab 1.13
when one’s case is subverted—
does the Lord not see it?
37 #
Ps 33.9
Who can command and have it done,
if the Lord has not ordained it?
38 #
Job 2.10; Isa 45.7 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that evil and good come?
39 #
Mic 7.9; Heb 12.5, 6 Why should any who draw breath complain
about the punishment of their sins?
40 #
Ps 119.59; 2 Cor 13.5 Let us test and examine our ways
and return to the Lord.
41 #
Ps 25.1; 28.2 Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands
to God in heaven.
42 #
Jer 5.7, 9; Dan 9.5 We have transgressed and rebelled,
and you have not forgiven.
43 #
Ps 83.15; Lam 2.21 You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
killing without pity;
44you have wrapped yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can pass through.
45 #
1 Cor 4.13
You have made us filth and rubbish
among the peoples.
46 #
Lam 2.16
All our enemies
have opened their mouths against us;
47 #
Isa 24.17; Jer 48.43 panic and pitfall have come upon us,
devastation and destruction.
48My eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of my people.#3.48 Heb the daughter of my people
49 #
Ps 77.2
My eyes will flow without ceasing,
without respite,
50 #
Isa 63.15
until the Lord from heaven
looks down and sees.
51My eyes cause me grief
at the fate of all the young women in my city.
52 #
Ps 35.7
Those who were my enemies without cause
have hunted me like a bird;
53 #
Jer 37.16
they flung me alive into a pit
and hurled stones on me;
54 #
Ps 69.2; Isa 38.10 water closed over my head;
I said, “I am lost.”
55 #
Jon 2.2
I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
56 #
Ps 116.1, 2 you heard my plea, “Do not close your ear
to my cry for help, but give me relief!”
57 #
Ps 145.18; Isa 41.10, 14 You came near when I called on you;
you said, “Do not fear!”
58 #
Ps 71.23; Jer 51.36 You have taken up my cause, O Lord;
you have redeemed my life.
59You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;
judge my cause.
60 #
Jer 11.19, 20; 18.18 You have seen all their malice,
all their plots against me.
61You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
all their plots against me.
62The whispers and murmurs of my assailants
are against me all day long.
63Whether they sit or rise—see,
I am the object of their taunt songs.
64Pay them back for their deeds, O Lord,
according to the work of their hands!
65Give them anguish of heart;
your curse be on them!
66 #
Ps 8.3
Pursue them in anger and destroy them
from under the Lord’s heavens.
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