Lamentations 3:37-66
God’s Justice

37 Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?

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38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

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39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

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41 Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.

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42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

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43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

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44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.

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45 Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

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46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

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47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

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48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

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50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

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51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

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52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

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53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

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54 Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off.

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55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

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56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

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57 Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

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58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

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59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

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60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.

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61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;

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62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

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63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.

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64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

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65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

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66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

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