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Passage Lookup: Lamentations 3:19-66
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48 verses
New International Version (1984 Edition)
Lamentations 3:19
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I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.
Lamentations 3:20
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I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.
Lamentations 3:21
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Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Lamentations 3:22
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Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
Lamentations 3:23
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They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:24
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I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."
Lamentations 3:25
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The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
Lamentations 3:26
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it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD .
Lamentations 3:27
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It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.
Lamentations 3:28
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Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it on him.
Lamentations 3:29
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Let him bury his face in the dust- there may yet be hope.
Lamentations 3:30
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Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.
Lamentations 3:31
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For men are not cast off by the Lord forever.
Lamentations 3:32
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Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
Lamentations 3:33
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For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.
Lamentations 3:34
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To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
Lamentations 3:35
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to deny a man his rights before the Most High,
Lamentations 3:36
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to deprive a man of justice- would not the Lord see such things?
Lamentations 3:37
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Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
Lamentations 3:38
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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
Lamentations 3:39
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Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins?
Lamentations 3:40
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Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD .
Lamentations 3:41
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Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
Lamentations 3:42
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"We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
Lamentations 3:43
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"You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
Lamentations 3:44
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You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
Lamentations 3:45
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You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
Lamentations 3:46
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"All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
Lamentations 3:47
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We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction."
Lamentations 3:48
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Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
Lamentations 3:49
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My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
Lamentations 3:50
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until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
Lamentations 3:51
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What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
Lamentations 3:52
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Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
Lamentations 3:53
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They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
Lamentations 3:54
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the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to be cut off.
Lamentations 3:55
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I called on your name, O LORD , from the depths of the pit.
Lamentations 3:56
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You heard my plea: "Do not close your ears to my cry for relief."
Lamentations 3:57
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You came near when I called you, and you said, "Do not fear."
Lamentations 3:58
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O Lord, you took up my case; you redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:59
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You have seen, O LORD , the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
Lamentations 3:60
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You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
Lamentations 3:61
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O LORD , you have heard their insults, all their plots against me-
Lamentations 3:62
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what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
Lamentations 3:63
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Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.
Lamentations 3:64
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Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD , for what their hands have done.
Lamentations 3:65
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Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
Lamentations 3:66
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Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD .
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