NITHYAM SONGSLamentations 3
World English Bible (WEB) • 66 verses
1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
RelatedPsalms 88:7 · Job 19:21 · Psalms 88:15-16 · Jeremiah 15:17-18 · Jeremiah 20:14-18 · Psalms 71:20
2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
RelatedJob 31:21 · Isaiah 5:25 · Isaiah 63:10 · Deuteronomy 29:20 · Isaiah 1:25 · Lamentations 2:4-7
4He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
RelatedPsalms 51:8 · Isaiah 38:13 · Psalms 31:9-10 · Jeremiah 50:17 · Psalms 38:2-8 · Psalms 102:3-5
5He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
RelatedLamentations 3:19 · Jeremiah 23:15 · Job 19:8 · Psalms 69:21 · Lamentations 3:7-9 · Jeremiah 8:14
6He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
7He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
11He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
14I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
RelatedJeremiah 20:7 · Lamentations 3:63 · Psalms 22:6-7 · Psalms 35:15-16 · Psalms 137:3 · Jeremiah 48:27
15He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
RelatedJeremiah 9:15 · Psalms 60:3 · Job 9:18 · Jeremiah 25:27 · Lamentations 3:19 · Jeremiah 25:15-18
16He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
17You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
RelatedIsaiah 59:11 · Psalms 119:155 · Jeremiah 20:14-18 · Isaiah 54:10 · Lamentations 1:16 · Isaiah 38:17
18I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from the LORD.”
19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
20My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
21This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
22It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
23They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
25The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
RelatedMicah 7:7-8 · Isaiah 40:31 · Psalms 130:5-6 · Lamentations 3:26 · Psalms 37:34 · Psalms 40:1-5
26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
RelatedEcclesiastes 12:1 · Matthew 11:29-30 · Psalms 119:71 · Psalms 94:12 · Psalms 90:12 · Hebrews 12:5-12
28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
30Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
31For the Lord will not cast off forever.
RelatedPsalms 94:14 · Psalms 77:7 · Psalms 103:8-10 · Isaiah 54:7-10 · 1 Samuel 12:22 · Jeremiah 32:40
32For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
33For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
34To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
RelatedZechariah 9:11-12 · Isaiah 51:22-23 · Isaiah 49:9 · Psalms 102:20 · Jeremiah 51:33-36 · Psalms 69:33
35to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
RelatedPsalms 33:9-11 · Isaiah 46:10 · Proverbs 16:9 · Proverbs 19:21 · Proverbs 21:30 · Daniel 4:35
38Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Related2 Corinthians 13:5 · Psalms 139:23-24 · Joel 2:12-13 · Psalms 4:4 · Isaiah 55:7 · Psalms 119:59
41Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
RelatedPsalms 25:1 · Psalms 28:2 · Psalms 86:4 · Psalms 143:6-8 · Psalms 141:2 · 1 Thessalonians 2:8
42“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
RelatedJeremiah 5:7-9 · Nehemiah 9:26 · Luke 15:18-19 · Zechariah 1:5 · Lamentations 5:16 · 2 Kings 24:4
43“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
RelatedLamentations 2:17 · Lamentations 2:21 · Lamentations 3:66 · Psalms 83:15 · Lamentations 2:1-2 · Ezekiel 9:10
44You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
RelatedLamentations 3:8 · Zechariah 7:13 · Psalms 97:2 · Jeremiah 15:1 · Jeremiah 14:11 · Psalms 80:4
45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
Related1 Corinthians 4:13 · Lamentations 3:14 · Deuteronomy 28:37 · Deuteronomy 28:13 · Lamentations 4:14-15 · Deuteronomy 28:44
46“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
RelatedPsalms 22:6-8 · Lamentations 2:16 · Psalms 44:13-14 · Psalms 79:10 · Psalms 79:4 · Matthew 27:38-45
47Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
RelatedIsaiah 24:17-18 · Isaiah 51:19 · Jeremiah 48:43-44 · Lamentations 1:4 · Lamentations 1:13 · Lamentations 2:1-9
48My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
RelatedJeremiah 9:18 · Jeremiah 9:1 · Lamentations 2:11 · Romans 9:1-3 · Jeremiah 13:17 · Lamentations 1:16
49My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,
50until the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven.
RelatedIsaiah 63:15 · Psalms 102:19-20 · Lamentations 5:1 · Psalms 80:14-16 · Lamentations 2:20 · Isaiah 62:6-7
51My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
RelatedLuke 19:41-44 · Jeremiah 19:9 · 1 Samuel 30:3-4 · Lamentations 1:18 · Jeremiah 14:16 · Lamentations 5:11
52They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
RelatedJeremiah 38:9 · Jeremiah 38:6 · Daniel 6:17 · Jeremiah 37:16 · Jeremiah 37:20 · Matthew 27:60
54Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
RelatedJonah 2:3-5 · Ezekiel 37:11 · Psalms 69:1-2 · 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 · Lamentations 3:18 · Psalms 18:4
55I called on your name, LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.
RelatedActs 16:24-28 · Psalms 40:1-2 · Jeremiah 38:6 · Psalms 69:13-18 · Jonah 2:2-4 · 2 Chronicles 33:11-12
56You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
57You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
58Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
RelatedPsalms 34:22-35:1 · Jeremiah 51:36 · Psalms 103:4 · Psalms 71:23 · Jeremiah 50:34 · Genesis 48:16
59LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
60You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
61You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their plans against me,
62the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
63You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
64You will pay them back, LORD, according to the work of their hands.
RelatedPsalms 28:4 · Jeremiah 11:20 · 2 Timothy 4:14 · Revelation 6:10 · Jeremiah 50:29 · Revelation 18:6
65You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
RelatedIsaiah 6:10 · 1 Corinthians 16:22 · Deuteronomy 2:30 · Deuteronomy 27:15-26 · Psalms 109:17-18
66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.
RelatedPsalms 8:3 · Psalms 115:16 · Lamentations 3:43 · Jeremiah 10:11 · Deuteronomy 25:19 · Deuteronomy 7:24
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