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Sunday, May 5th, 2024
the <>Sixth Sunday after Easter
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Passage Lookup: Lamentations 3:1-18
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I am the man who has seen misery Because of the rod of His wrath.
Lamentations 3:1
I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
Lamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Indeed, He has turned His hand against me Repeatedly all the day.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
He has consumed my flesh and my skin, He has broken my bones.
Lamentations 3:4
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
Lamentations 3:5
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
He has made me live in dark places, Like those who have long been dead.
Lamentations 3:6
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:8
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has twisted my paths.
Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3:10
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
He has made my ways deviate, and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
Lamentations 3:11
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
He bent His bow And took aim at me as a target for the arrow.
Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
He made the arrows of His quiver Enter my inward parts.
Lamentations 3:13
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their song of ridicule all the day.
Lamentations 3:14
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink plenty of wormwood.
Lamentations 3:15
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
He has also made my teeth grind with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
Lamentations 3:16
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
My soul has been excluded from peace; I have forgotten happiness.
Lamentations 3:17
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
So I say, "My strength has failed, And so has my hope from the LORD."
Lamentations 3:18
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord :
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