Lamentations · Literal Standard Version
Lamentations 3 Literal Standard Version
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1 [ALEPH-BET] I [am] the man [who] has seen affliction || By the rod of His wrath.
1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He has led me, and causes to go [in] darkness, and without light.
2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3 Surely against me He turns back, || He turns His hand all the day.
3 Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
4 He has worn out my flesh and my skin. He has broken my bones.
4 He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
5 He has built up against me, || And sets around poverty and weariness.
5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 In dark places He has caused me to dwell, || As the dead of old.
6 He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
7 He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has made heavy my chain.
7 He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
8 Also when I call and cry out, || He has shut out my prayer.
8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9 He has hedged my ways with hewn work, || My paths He has made crooked.
9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
10 A bear lying in wait He [is] to me, || A lion in secret hiding places.
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
11 My ways He is turning aside, and He pulls me in pieces, || He has made me a desolation.
11 He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
12 He has bent His bow, || And sets me up as a mark for an arrow.
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He has caused to enter into my reins || The sons of His quiver.
13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
14 I have been a derision to all my people, || Their song all the day.
14 I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
15 He has filled me with bitter things, || He has filled me [with] wormwood.
15 He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
16 And He breaks with gravel my teeth, || He has covered me with ashes.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
17 And You cast off my soul from peace, || I have forgotten prosperity.
17 You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
18 And I say, My strength and my hope have perished from YHWH.
18 I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
19 Remember my affliction and my mourning, || Wormwood and gall!
19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
20 Remember well, and my soul bows down in me.
20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
21 This I turn to my heart—therefore I hope.
21 This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
22 The kindnesses of YHWH! For we have not been consumed, || For His mercies have not ended.
22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
23 New every morning, abundant [is] Your faithfulness.
23 They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
24 My portion [is] YHWH, my soul has said, || Therefore I hope for Him.
24 “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
25 YHWH [is] good to those waiting for Him, || To the soul [that] seeks Him.
25 Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
26 [It is] good when one stays and stands still || For the salvation of YHWH.
26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
27 [It is] good for a man that he bears a yoke in his youth.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 He sits alone, and is silent, || For He has laid [it] on him.
28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
29 He puts his mouth in the dust, if so be, there is hope.
29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
30 He gives to his striker the cheek, || He is filled with reproach.
30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
31 For the Lord does not cast off for all time.
31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 For though He afflicted, yet He has pitied, || According to the abundance of His kindness.
32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
33 For He has not afflicted with His heart, || Nor does He grieve the sons of men.
33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
34 To bruise under one’s feet any bound ones of earth,
34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
35 To turn aside the judgment of a man, || Before the face of the Most High,
35 to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord has not approved.
36 to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
37 Who [is] this—he has spoken, and it is, || [And] the Lord has not commanded [it]?
37 Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
38 From the mouth of the Most High does not go forth the evils and the good.
38 Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39 Why does a living man sigh habitually, || A man for his sin?
39 Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 We search our ways, and investigate, || And turn back to YHWH.
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
41 We lift up our heart on the hands to God in the heavens.
41 Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and been rebellious, || You have not forgiven.
42 “We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
43 You have covered Yourself with anger, || And pursue us; You have slain—You have not pitied.
43 “You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud, || So that prayer does not pass through.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
45 Outcast and refuse You make us || In the midst of the peoples.
45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
46 Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
46 “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
47 Fear and a snare has been for us, || Desolation and destruction.
47 Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
48 Streams of water go down my eye, || For the destruction of the daughter of my people.
48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eye is poured out, || And does not cease without intermission,
49 My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,
50 Until YHWH looks and sees from the heavens,
50 until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.
51 My eye affects my soul, || Because of all the daughters of my city.
51 My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Hunting—my enemies have hunted me without cause like the bird.
52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in a pit, || And they cast a stone against me.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
54 Waters have flowed over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
54 Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
55 I called Your Name, O YHWH, from the lower pit.
55 I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
56 You have heard my voice, do not hide Your ear at my breathing—at my cry.
56 You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
57 You have drawn near in the day I call You, You have said, Do not fear.
57 You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
58 You have pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, || You have redeemed my life.
58 Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
59 You have seen, O YHWH, my overthrow, || Judge my cause.
59 Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance, || All their thoughts of me.
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
61 You have heard their reproach, O YHWH, || All their thoughts against me,
61 You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,
62 The lips of my withstanders, || Even their meditation against me all the day.
62 the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
63 Their sitting down, and their rising up, || Behold attentively, I [am] their song.
63 You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
64 You return to them the deed, O YHWH, || According to the work of their hands.
64 You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
65 You give to them a covered heart, || Your curse to them.
65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
66 You pursue in anger, and destroy them, || From under the heavens of YHWH!
66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
Cross references (65)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 88:7; Job 19:21; Psalm 88:15–16; Isaiah 53:3; Psalm 71:20
- 2 Job 30:26; Isaiah 59:9; Amos 5:18–20; Jeremiah 4:23; Jude 13
- 3 Isaiah 63:10; Lamentations 2:4–7; Deuteronomy 29:20; Isaiah 1:25; Isaiah 5:25
- 4 Psalm 51:8; Isaiah 38:13; Psalm 38:2–8; Jeremiah 50:17; Psalm 31:9–10
- 5 Lamentations 3:19; Jeremiah 23:15; Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7–9; Jeremiah 8:14
- 6 Psalm 88:5–6; Psalm 143:3; Psalm 143:7
- 7 Job 19:8; Job 3:23; Jeremiah 38:6; Psalm 88:8; Jeremiah 40:4
- 8 Job 30:20; Psalm 22:2; Job 19:7; Matthew 27:46; Lamentations 3:44
- 9 Isaiah 63:17; Hosea 2:6; Isaiah 30:28; Lamentations 3:11
- 10 Hosea 6:1; Psalm 10:9; Amos 5:18–20; Job 10:16; Hosea 5:14
- 11 Hosea 6:1; Job 16:12–13; Lamentations 1:13; Daniel 7:23; Jeremiah 19:8
- 12 Psalm 38:2; Job 7:20; Lamentations 2:4; Job 6:4; Psalm 7:12–13
- 13 Job 6:4; Deuteronomy 32:23; Job 41:28
- 14 Jeremiah 20:7; Lamentations 3:63; Psalm 22:6–7; Nehemiah 4:2–4; Psalm 123:3–4
- 15 Jeremiah 9:15; Lamentations 3:19; Ruth 1:20; Jeremiah 25:15–18; Isaiah 51:17–22
- 16 Proverbs 20:17; Jeremiah 6:26; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 58:6; Luke 11:11
- 17 Isaiah 59:11; Genesis 41:30; Lamentations 1:16; Isaiah 38:17; Jeremiah 8:15
- 18 Job 17:15; 1 Samuel 27:1; Ezekiel 37:11; Psalm 31:22; Psalm 116:11
- 19 Lamentations 3:15; Lamentations 3:5; Job 7:7; Psalm 89:50; Psalm 132:1
- 20 Psalm 42:5–6; Psalm 42:11; Job 21:6; Psalm 43:5; Psalm 146:8
- 21 Habakkuk 2:3; Psalm 130:7; Psalm 77:7–11; Lamentations 3:24–29; Psalm 119:81
- 22 Psalm 86:15; Luke 1:50; Nehemiah 9:31; Micah 7:18–19; Malachi 3:6
- 23 Hebrews 10:23; Psalm 30:5; Isaiah 33:2; Psalm 36:5; Psalm 89:33
- 24 Psalm 73:26; Psalm 16:5; Psalm 142:5; Lamentations 3:21; Psalm 33:18
- 25 Micah 7:7–8; Isaiah 40:31; Psalm 130:5–6; Lamentations 3:26; Psalm 37:34
- 26 Psalm 37:7; Psalm 37:34; Psalm 130:5; Genesis 49:18; Hebrews 10:35
- 27 Ecclesiastes 12:1; Matthew 11:29–30; Psalm 119:71; Psalm 94:12; Psalm 90:12
- 28 Jeremiah 15:17; Lamentations 2:10; Psalm 39:9; Psalm 102:7
- 29 Job 40:4; Luke 15:18–19; Jeremiah 31:17; Luke 18:13; Zephaniah 2:3
- 30 Isaiah 50:6; Job 16:10; Matthew 5:39; Matthew 26:67; 2 Corinthians 11:20
- 31 Psalm 94:14; Psalm 103:8–10; Psalm 77:7; Isaiah 54:7–10; Isaiah 57:16
- 32 Psalm 78:38; Psalm 30:5; Psalm 103:11; Hosea 11:8; Judges 10:16
- 33 Ezekiel 33:11; Ezekiel 18:32; Hebrews 12:9–10; Isaiah 28:21
- 34 Zechariah 9:11–12; Isaiah 51:22–23; Psalm 102:20; Jeremiah 51:33–36; Psalm 69:33
- 36 Isaiah 59:15; Habakkuk 1:13; Jeremiah 22:3; 2 Samuel 11:27
- 37 Psalm 33:9–11; Proverbs 16:9; Isaiah 46:10; Proverbs 19:21; Proverbs 21:30
- 38 Isaiah 45:7; Amos 3:6; Jeremiah 32:42; Job 2:10; Psalm 75:7
- 39 Proverbs 19:3; Micah 7:9; Jeremiah 30:15; Genesis 4:5–7; 2 Kings 3:13
- 40 2 Corinthians 13:5; Psalm 139:23–24; Joel 2:12–13; Psalm 4:4; Isaiah 55:7
- 41 Psalm 25:1; Psalm 28:2; Psalm 86:4; Psalm 143:6–8; 1 Thessalonians 2:8
- 42 Nehemiah 9:26; Jeremiah 5:7–9; Luke 15:18–19; Zechariah 1:5; 2 Kings 24:4
- 43 Lamentations 2:21; Lamentations 2:17; Lamentations 2:1–2; Lamentations 3:66; Psalm 83:15
- 44 Lamentations 3:8; Zechariah 7:13; Psalm 97:2; Jeremiah 15:1; Jeremiah 14:11
- 45 1 Corinthians 4:13; Lamentations 4:14–15; Deuteronomy 28:44; Deuteronomy 28:37; Lamentations 3:14
- 46 Lamentations 2:16; Psalm 22:6–8; Psalm 79:10; Exodus 11:7; Psalm 44:13–14
- 47 Isaiah 24:17–18; Isaiah 51:19; Jeremiah 48:43–44; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 1:13
- 48 Jeremiah 9:18; Lamentations 2:11; Jeremiah 9:1; Psalm 119:136; Lamentations 1:16
- 49 Jeremiah 14:17; Psalm 77:2; Lamentations 1:16
- 50 Isaiah 63:15; Psalm 80:14–16; Lamentations 5:1; Psalm 102:19–20; Lamentations 2:20
- 51 Jeremiah 19:9; Luke 19:41–44; 1 Samuel 30:3–4; Lamentations 2:21; Jeremiah 14:16
- 52 Psalm 35:19; Psalm 35:7; Jeremiah 38:4–6; Psalm 69:4; John 15:25
- 53 Jeremiah 38:6; Daniel 6:17; Jeremiah 38:9; Jeremiah 37:16; Matthew 27:66
- 54 Jonah 2:3–5; Ezekiel 37:11; Psalm 18:4; Psalm 69:1–2; 2 Corinthians 1:8–10
- 55 Acts 16:24–28; Psalm 40:1–2; 2 Chronicles 33:11–12; Psalm 130:1–2; Jonah 2:2–4
- 56 Job 34:28; Isaiah 38:5; Psalm 55:1; Psalm 6:8–9; Psalm 34:6
- 57 James 4:8; Isaiah 41:10; Isaiah 58:9; Isaiah 41:14; Revelation 2:10
- 58 Psalms 34:22–35:1; Jeremiah 51:36; Psalm 103:4; Jeremiah 50:34; Psalm 71:23
- 59 Psalm 43:1; Psalm 9:4; Genesis 31:42; Psalm 26:1; 1 Peter 2:23
- 60 Jeremiah 11:19–20; Lamentations 3:59; Psalm 10:14
- 61 Lamentations 5:1; Psalm 89:50; Zephaniah 2:8; Psalm 74:18; Lamentations 3:30
- 62 Ezekiel 36:3; Psalm 59:7; Psalm 59:12; Psalm 140:3; Jeremiah 18:18
- 63 Psalm 139:2; Lamentations 3:14; Job 30:9
- 64 Psalm 28:4; Jeremiah 11:20; Revelation 6:10; 2 Timothy 4:14; Jeremiah 50:29
- 65 Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 2:30; 1 Corinthians 16:22; Psalm 109:17–18; Deuteronomy 27:15–26
- 66 Psalm 8:3; Psalm 115:16; Lamentations 3:43; Deuteronomy 25:19; Jeremiah 10:11
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Again another Prophet says, They cut off My life in a dungeon, and cast a stone upon Me.
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To us who are (as Jeremiah saith), "prisoners of the earth," and covered with the denseness of carnal nature, this at all events is known, that as it is impossible for a man to step over his own shadow, however fast he may move (for the shadow will always move on as fast as it is being overtaken) or, as …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)