Lamentations 3

Lamentations 3 in full

King James Version, 66 verses. Tap a reference to link straight to a single verse.

1. Lam 3:1

   I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2. Lam 3:2

   He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3. Lam 3:3

   Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

4. Lam 3:4

   My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

5. Lam 3:5

   He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

6. Lam 3:6

   He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

7. Lam 3:7

   He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

8. Lam 3:8

   Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9. Lam 3:9

   He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

10. Lam 3:10

    He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

11. Lam 3:11

    He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12. Lam 3:12

    He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13. Lam 3:13

    He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

14. Lam 3:14

    I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

15. Lam 3:15

    He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

16. Lam 3:16

    He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

17. Lam 3:17

    And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

18. Lam 3:18

    And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

19. Lam 3:19

    Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

20. Lam 3:20

    My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

21. Lam 3:21

    This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

22. Lam 3:22

    It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

23. Lam 3:23

    They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24. Lam 3:24

    The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25. Lam 3:25

    The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26. Lam 3:26

    It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

27. Lam 3:27

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

28. Lam 3:28

    He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29. Lam 3:29

    He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30. Lam 3:30

    He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

31. Lam 3:31

    For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

32. Lam 3:32

    But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33. Lam 3:33

    For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

34. Lam 3:34

    To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35. Lam 3:35

    To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

36. Lam 3:36

    To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

37. Lam 3:37

    Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

38. Lam 3:38

    Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

39. Lam 3:39

    Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40. Lam 3:40

    Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

41. Lam 3:41

    Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

42. Lam 3:42

    We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

43. Lam 3:43

    Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44. Lam 3:44

    Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

45. Lam 3:45

    Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

46. Lam 3:46

    All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47. Lam 3:47

    Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48. Lam 3:48

    Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49. Lam 3:49

    Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

50. Lam 3:50

    Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

51. Lam 3:51

    Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52. Lam 3:52

    Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53. Lam 3:53

    They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

54. Lam 3:54

    Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

55. Lam 3:55

    I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

56. Lam 3:56

    Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57. Lam 3:57

    Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

58. Lam 3:58

    O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

59. Lam 3:59

    O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

60. Lam 3:60

    Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61. Lam 3:61

    Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

62. Lam 3:62

    The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63. Lam 3:63

    Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

64. Lam 3:64

    Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

65. Lam 3:65

    Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66. Lam 3:66

    Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.

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Lamentations 3 is part of Lamentations, book 25 of the 66 in the King James Bible. Read the 5 chapters straight through, or search any word across all 66 books.