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LAMENTATIONS
- Those that I have dandled and brought up
- Hath mine enemy consumed.'
- א
- 3I am the man that hath seen affliction
- By the rod of His wrath.
- 2He hath led me and caused me to walk
- In darkness and not in light.
- 3Surely against me He turneth His hand
- Again and again all the day.
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- 4My flesh and my skin hath He worn out;
- He hath broken my bones.
- 5He hath builded against me, and compassed me
- With gall and travail.
- 6He hath made me to dwell in dark places,
- As those that have been long dead.
- ג
- 7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth;
- He hath made my chain heavy.
- 8Yea, when I cry and call for help,
- He shutteth out my prayer.
- 9He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone,
- He hath made my paths crooked.
- ד
- 10He is unto me as a bear lying in wait,
- As a lion in secret places.
- 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces;
- He hath made me desolate.
- 12He hath bent His bow, and set me
- As a mark for the arrow.
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- 13He hath caused the arrows of His quiver
- To enter into my reins.
- 14I am become a derision to all my people,
- And their song all the day.
- 15He hath filled me with bitterness,
- He hath sated me with wormwood.
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- 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones,
- He hath made me to wallow in ashes.
- 17And my soul is removed far off from peace,
- I forgot prosperity.
- 18And I said: 'My strength is perished,
- And mine expectation from the Lord.'
- ז
- 19Remember mine affliction and mine anguish,
- The wormwood and the gall.
- 20My soul hath them still in remembrance,
- And is bowed down within me.
- 21This I recall to my mind,
- Therefore have I hope.
- ח
- 22Surely the Lord's mercies are not consumed,
- Surely His compassions fail not.
- 23They are new every morning;
- Great is Thy faithfulness.
- 24'The Lord is my portion', saith my soul;
- 'Therefore will I hope in Him.'
- ט
- 25The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him,
- To the soul that seeketh Him.
- 26It is good that a man should quietly wait
- For the salvation of the Lord.
- 27It is good for a man that he bear
- The yoke in his youth.
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- 28Let him sit alone and keep silence,
- Because He hath laid it upon him.
- 29Let him put his mouth in the dust,
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