Book 25 : LAMENTATIONS - Chapter 003
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He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into
light
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Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me
all the day
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My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my
bones
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He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and
travail
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He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old
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He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made
my chain heavy
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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my
paths crooked
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He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in
secret places
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He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath
made me desolate
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He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow
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He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my
reins
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I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day
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He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken
with wormwood
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He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath
covered me with ashes
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And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat
prosperity
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And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD
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Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and
the gall
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My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me
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This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope
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It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because
his compassions fail not
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They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness
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The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope
in him
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The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that
seeketh him
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It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for
the salvation of the LORD
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth
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He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it
upon him
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He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope
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He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full
with reproach
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For the LORD will not cast off for ever
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But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion
according to the multitude of his mercies
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For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of
men
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To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth
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To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most
High
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To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not
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Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord
commandeth it not
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Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and
good
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Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment
of his sins
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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD
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Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the
heavens
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We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not
pardoned
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Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast
slain, thou hast not pitied
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Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should
not pass through
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Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst
of the people
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All our enemies have opened their mouths against us
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Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction
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Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction
of the daughter of my people
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Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any
intermission
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Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven
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Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of
my city
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Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone
upon me
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Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off
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I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon
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Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing,
at my cry
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Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou
saidst, Fear not
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O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast
redeemed my life
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O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations
against me
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Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their
imaginations against me
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The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device
against me all the day
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Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their
musick
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Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work
of their hands
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Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them
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Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of
the LORD
Book 25 : LAMENTATIONS - Chapter 003
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