Lamentations 3:1-20
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1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
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2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
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3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
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4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
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6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
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7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
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11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
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12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
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14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
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16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
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19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
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20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.