(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 1 "I am the man who has experienced suffering under the rod of God's fury.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 2 God has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 3 He beat me again and again all day long.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 4 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away. He has broken my bones.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 5 He has attacked me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 6 He has made me live in darkness, like those who died a long time ago.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 7 He has blocked me so that I can't get out. He has put heavy chains on me.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 8 Even when I cry and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 9 He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 10 He is like a bear waiting to ambush me, like a lion in hiding.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 11 He has forced me off the road I was taking, torn me to pieces, and left me with nothing.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 12 He has drawn his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 13 He has shot the arrows from his quiver into my heart.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people. All day long [they make fun of me] with their songs.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has made me drink wormwood.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 16 He has ground my teeth with gravel. He has trampled me into the dust.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 17 "My soul has been kept from enjoying peace. I have forgotten what happiness is.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 18 I said, 'I've lost my strength [to live] and my hope in the LORD.'
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 19 Remember my suffering and my [aimless] wandering, the wormwood and poison.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 20 My soul continues to remember [these things] and is so discouraged.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 21 "The reason I can [still] find hope is that I keep this one thing in mind:
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 22 the LORD's mercy. We were not completely wiped out. His compassion is never limited.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 23 It is new every morning. His faithfulness is great.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 24 My soul can say, 'The LORD is my lot [in life]. That is why I find hope in him.'
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 25 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to anyone who seeks help from him.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 26 "It is good to continue to hope and wait silently for the LORD to save us.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 27 It is good for people to endure burdens when they're young.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 28 They should sit alone and remain silent because the LORD has laid these burdens on them.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 29 They should put their mouths in the dust. Maybe a reason to hope exists.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 30 They should turn their cheeks to the one who strikes them and take their fill of insults.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 31 "The Lord will not reject [such] people forever.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 32 Even if he makes us suffer, he will have compassion in keeping with the richness of his mercy.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 33 He does not willingly bring suffering or grief to anyone,
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 34 crush any prisoner on earth underfoot,
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 35 deny people their rights in the presence of the Most High God,
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 36 or deprive people of justice in court. The Lord isn't happy to see [these things].
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 37 Who was it who spoke and it came into being? It was the Lord who gave the order.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 38 Both good and bad come from the mouth of the Most High God.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 39 "Why should any living mortal (any person) complain about being punished for sin?
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 40 Let us look closely at our ways and examine them and then return to the LORD.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 41 Let us raise our hearts and hands to God in heaven.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 42 "We have been disobedient and rebellious. You haven't forgiven us.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 43 You covered yourself with anger and pursued us. You killed without pity.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 44 You covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer could get through it.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 45 You made us the scum and trash of the nations.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 46 All our enemies gawk at us.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 47 Panic and pitfalls have found us, so have devastation and destruction.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 48 "Streams of tears run down from my eyes over the ruin of my dear people.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 49 My eyes will keep flowing without stopping for a moment
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 51 What I see with my eyes disturbs me deeply because of all the young women in my city.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 52 "Those who were my enemies for no reason hunted me like a bird.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 53 They threw me alive into a pit and threw rocks at me.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 54 Water flowed over my head. I thought I was finished.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 55 "I call your name from the deepest pit, O LORD.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 56 Listen to my cry [for help]. Don't close your ears when I cry out for relief.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 57 Be close at hand when I call to you. You told me not to be afraid.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 58 Plead my case for me, O LORD. Reclaim my life.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 59 Look at the wrong that has been done to me, O LORD. Give me a fair verdict.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 60 Look at all their malice, all their plots against me.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 61 Listen to their insults, all their plots against me.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 62 The words and thoughts of those who attack me are directed against me all day long.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 63 Look at them! Whether they are sitting or standing, they make fun of me in their songs.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 64 Pay them back, O LORD, for what they deserve, for what their own hands have done.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 65 Make them stubborn. Let your curse be on them.
(GWT) Lamentations 3 : 66 Pursue them in anger, and wipe them out from under the LORD's heaven."