Lamentations 3:1-18
The Prophet’s Afflictions

1 I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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2 He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

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3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.

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4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

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5 He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.

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6 He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

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7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

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8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

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10 He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.

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11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

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12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

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14 I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.

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15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

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16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

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17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

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18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

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