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Lamentations 3 The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope

Lamentations 3:1-66 The Prophet’s Anguish and Hope

Lamentations 3:22-24

22
Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
24
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I hope in Him!”

Lamentations 3:25-27
25
The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.
26
It is good that one should hope and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.
27
It is good for a man to bear
The yoke in his youth.

Lamentations 3:28-30
28
Let him sit alone and keep silent,
Because God has laid it on him;
29
Let him put his mouth in the dust—
There may yet be hope.
30
Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him,
And be full of reproach.

Lamentations 3:31-33
31
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32
Though He causes grief,
Yet He will show compassion
According to the multitude of His mercies.
33
For He does not afflict willingly (from His heart),
Nor grieve the children of men.

Lamentations 3:40-42
40
Let us search out and examine our ways,
And turn back to the Lord;
41
Let us lift our hearts and hands
To God in heaven.
42
We have transgressed and rebelled;
You have not pardoned.

I said, “I am cut off!”

Lamentations 3:55-57
55
I called on Your name, O Lord,
From the lowest pit.
56
You have heard my voice:
“Do not hide Your ear
From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
57
You drew near on the day I called on You,
And said, “Do not fear!”

Lamentations 3:58-60
58
O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul;
You have redeemed my life.
59
O Lord, You have seen how I am wronged;
Judge my case.
60
You have seen all their vengeance,
All their schemes against me.

Lamentations 3:61-63
61
You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
All their schemes against me,
62
The lips of my enemies
And their whispering against me all the day.
63
Look at their sitting down and their rising up;
I am their taunting song.

Lamentations 3:64-66
64
Repay them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.
65
Give them a veiled heart;
Your curse be upon them!
66
In Your anger,
Pursue and destroy them
From under the heavens of the Lord.