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Passage Lookup: Lamentations 3:1-18
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Lamentations 3:1
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I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:2
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He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light;
Lamentations 3:3
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indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.
Lamentations 3:4
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He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:5
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He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Lamentations 3:6
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He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
Lamentations 3:7
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He has walled me in so I cannot escape; he has weighed me down with chains.
Lamentations 3:8
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Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:9
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He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:10
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Like a bear lying in wait, like a lion in hiding,
Lamentations 3:11
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he dragged me from the path and mangled me and left me without help.
Lamentations 3:12
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He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
Lamentations 3:13
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He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
Lamentations 3:14
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I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
Lamentations 3:15
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He has filled me with bitter herbs and sated me with gall.
Lamentations 3:16
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He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.
Lamentations 3:17
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I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
Lamentations 3:18
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So I say, "My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD ."
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