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ULT LAM Chapter 3

LAM 3 ©

3I am the man seeing affliction by the rod of his fury.

2He led me and brought about darkness and not light.

3Surely, against me he turned; his hand twisted all day.

4He exhausted my flesh and my skin; he shattered my bones.

5He built up against me and made a surrounding of bitterness and hardship.

6He makes me dwell in dark places like the dead of long ago.

7He built a wall around me and I cannot escape. He made my chains heavy.

8Even though I call out and cry for help, he blocks my prayer.

9He built a wall around my way with hewn stone; he perverted my paths.

10He is a bear ready to ambush me, a lion in hiding.

11He disordered my paths and tore me apart; he has made me desolate.

12He bent his bow and set me up like a target for an arrow.

13He pierced my kidneys with the arrows of his quiver.

14I became a joke to all the peoples, their taunt all day.

15He filled me with bitterness; he forced me to drink wormwood.

16And he made my teeth grind with gravel; he made me cower in the dust.

17And my soul is deprived of peace; I have forgotten good.

18And I said, “My endurance has perished and my hope in Yahweh.”

19Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and bitterness.

20It continually remembers and my soul melts within me.

21This I return to my heart; therefore, I have hope.

22The steadfast love of Yahweh does not cease; his mercy does not end.

23They are new morning by morning; great is your faithfulness.

24“Yahweh is my portion,” my soul said; therefore, I will hope in him.

25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul seeking him.

26It is good to wait and be silent for the salvation of Yahweh.

27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28Let him sit alone and be silent when it is laid upon him.

29Let him put his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

30Let him give his cheek to the one striking him; let him be filled with reproach.

31For the Lord will not withhold forever.

32Though he brings grief, he will be merciful according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

33For he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the sons of man.

34Crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth;

35denying a man justice before the face of the Most High;

36perverting a man in his dispute—the Lord does not approve.

37Who has spoken this and it happened, if the Lord did not command?

38Did not trouble and good come forth from the mouth of the Most High?

39How can a person, a living man, complain about his guilt?

40Let us examine our ways and let us seek and return to Yahweh.

41Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in heaven.

42We have surely transgressed and disobeyed you; you did not pardon.

43You wrapped in anger and pursued us; you slayed; you showed no pity.

44You wrapped yourself in a cloud, from a prayer passing through.

45You made us an outcast and garbage among the nations.

46They open their mouth against us, all our enemies.

47Panic and pitfall have come for us, ruin and destruction.

48My eyes flow with streams of water because the daughter of my people are destroyed.

49My eye pours forth and it does not cease. There was no relief,

50until he looked down and Yahweh saw from heaven.

51My eyes grieve my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

52Surely, my enemies hunted me like a bird without cause.

53They silenced my life with a pit and threw a stone on me.

54They made water overflow over my head. I said, ‘I have been cut off!’

55I called your name, O Yahweh, from the depths of the pit.

56You heard my voice. ‘Do not shut your ear to my relief, to my cry for help.’

57You came near in the day I called you; you said, ‘Do not fear.’

58O Lord, you defended the dispute of my soul; you saved my life.

59O Yahweh, you saw my affliction; judge my case.

60You have seen all their insults, all their plots against me.

61You have heard their scorn, O Yahweh, all their plots against me.

62The lips of my assailants and their songs are against me all day.

63Look! their sitting and rising, their songs are against me.

64You, O Yahweh, will return to them a payment according to the deeds of their hands.

65Give them an insolent heart; your condemnation be upon them!

66You pursue in anger and destroy them from under heaven, O Yahweh.

LAM 3 ©

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