cjSee Jer. 11:19
cpSee Jer. 11:20
Lamentations 3
Great Is Your Faithfulness
1 aI am the man who has seen afflictionunder the brod of his wrath;
2he has driven and brought me
cinto darkness without any light;
3surely against me he turns his hand
again and again the whole day long.
4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;
dhe has broken my bones;
5 ehe has besieged and enveloped me
with fbitterness and tribulation;
6 ghe has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead of long ago.
7 hHe has walled me about so that iI cannot escape;
he has made my chains heavy;
8though jI call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;
9 khe has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
he has made my paths crooked.
10 lHe is a bear lying in wait for me,
a lion in hiding;
11 mhe turned aside my steps and ntore me to pieces;
ohe has made me desolate;
12 phe bent his bow qand set me
as a target for his arrow.
13He drove into my kidneys
rthe arrows of his quiver;
14 sI have become the laughingstock of all my people, ▼
▼Some manuscripts all peoples
uthe object of their taunts all day long.
15 vHe has filled me with bitterness;
he has sated me with wwormwood.
16 xHe has made my teeth grind on gravel,
and ymade me cower in ashes;
17my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness ▼
▼Hebrew good
is;18 aaso I say, “My endurance has perished;
so has my hope from the Lord.”
19 abRemember my affliction and my wanderings,
acthe wormwood and adthe gall!
20My soul continually remembers it
aeand is bowed down within me.
21But this I call to mind,
and aftherefore I have hope:
22 agThe steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; ▼
▼Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off
aihis mercies never come to an end;
23they are new ajevery morning;
akgreat is your faithfulness.
24 al“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
am“therefore I will hope in him.”
25The Lord is good to those who anwait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
26 aoIt is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.
27 apIt is good for a man that he bear
the yoke aqin his youth.
28Let him arsit alone in silence
when it is laid on him;
29 aslet him put his mouth in the dust—
there may yet be hope;
30 atlet him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
and let him be filled with insults.
31 auFor the Lord will not
cast off forever,
32for, though he avcause grief, awhe will have compassion
axaccording to the abundance of his steadfast love;
33 ayfor he does not afflict from his heart
or azgrieve the children of men.
34To crush underfoot
all bathe prisoners of the earth,
35 bbto deny a man justice
in the presence of the Most High,
36to subvert a man in his lawsuit,
bcthe Lord does not approve.
37 bdWho has spoken and it came to pass,
unless the Lord has commanded it?
38 beIs it not from the mouth of the Most High
that good and bad come?
39 bfWhy should a living man complain,
a man, about the punishment of his sins?
40Let us test and examine our ways,
bgand return to the Lord!
41 bhLet us lift up our hearts and hands
to God in heaven:
42 bi“We have transgressed and bjrebelled,
and you have not forgiven.
43“You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
bkkilling without pity;
44 blyou have wrapped yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can pass through.
45 bmYou have made us scum and garbage
among the peoples.
46 bn“All our enemies
open their mouths against us;
47 bopanic and pitfall have come upon us,
devastation and bpdestruction;
48 bqmy eyes flow with rivers of tears
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 br“My eyes will flow without ceasing,
without respite,
50 bsuntil the Lord from heaven
looks down and sees;
51my eyes cause me grief
at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
52 bt“I have been hunted bulike a bird
by those who were my enemies bvwithout cause;
53 bwthey flung me alive into the pit ▼
▼Or they end my life in the pit
byand cast stones on me;
54 bzwater closed over my head;
I said, ca‘I am lost.’
55 cb“I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
56 ccyou heard my plea, ‘Do not close
your ear to my cry for help!’
57 cdYou came near when I called on you;
you said, ce‘Do not fear!’
58“You have cftaken up my cause, cgO Lord;
you have chredeemed my life.
59You have seen the wrong done to me, ciO Lord;
judge my cause.
60You have seen all their vengeance,
all cjtheir plots against me.
61 ck“You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
all cltheir plots against me.
62The lips and thoughts cmof my assailants
are against me all the day long.
63 cnBehold their sitting and their rising;
coI am the object of their taunts.
64 cp“You will repay them, ▼
▼Or Repay them
O Lord,craccording to the work of their hands.
65You will give them ▼
▼Or Give them
dullness of heart;your curse will be ▼
▼Or place your curse
on them.66You will pursue them ▼
▼Or Pursue them
in anger and cvdestroy themfrom under cwyour heavens, O Lord.” ▼
▼Syriac (compare Septuagint, Vulgate); Hebrew the heavens of the Lord
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