Jeremiah Shares Israel’s Affliction: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTER

Lamentations, Chapter 3, verses 1-18

¹I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath.	Psa 88:7 Psa 88:15 Psa 88:16
²He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.	Job 30:26 Isa 59:9 Jer 4:23
³Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.	Psa 38:2 Isa 5:25
⁴He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.	Psa 31:9 Psa 31:10 Psa 38:2-8 Psa 102:3-5 Psa 51:8 Isa 38:13
⁵He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.	Job 19:8 Jer 23:15 Lam 3:19
⁶In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead.	Psa 88:5 Psa 88:6 Psa 143:3
⁷He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my^a Lit bronze piecechain heavy.	Job 3:23 Job 19:8 Jer 40:4
⁸Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.	Job 30:20 Psa 22:2
⁹He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.	Isa 63:17 Hos 2:6
¹⁰He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places.
¹¹He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.	Job 16:12 Job 16:13 Jer 15:3 Hos 6:1
¹²He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow.	Psa 7:12 Lam 2:4 Job 6:4 Job 7:20 Psa 38:2
¹³He made the^b Lit sonsarrows of His quiver To enter into my^c Lit kidneysinward parts.	Jer 5:16
¹⁴I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.	Psa 22:6 Psa 22:7 Psa 123:4 Jer 20:7 Job 30:9 Lam 3:63
¹⁵He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood.	Jer 9:15
¹⁶He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.	Psa 3:7 Psa 58:6 Pro 20:17 Jer 6:26
¹⁷My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten^d Lit goodhappiness.	Isa 59:11 Jer 12:12
¹⁸So I say, “My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the LORD.”	Job 17:15 Eze 37:11


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