Darby's English Translation

Lamentations 2

The Lamentations of Jeremiah

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Chapter 3

1


 

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

 

 

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2


 

  Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light.  

 

 

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3


 

  Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day.  

 

 

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4


 

  My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones.  

 

 

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5


 

  He hath built against me, and encompassed [me] with gall and toil.  

 

 

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6


 

  He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.  

 

 

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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


 

  Even 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 is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, 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 am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.  

 

 

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15


 

  He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk 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 have forgotten prosperity.  

 

 

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18


 

  And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.  

 

 

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19


 

  Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.  

 

 

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20


 

  My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.  

 

 

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21


 

  -- This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.  

 

 

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22


 

  It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;  

 

 

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23


 

  they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.  

 

 

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24


 

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

 

 

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25


 

  Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.  

 

 

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26


 

  It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.  

 

 

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27


 

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

 

 

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28


 

  He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;  

 

 

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29


 

  he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;  

 

 

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30


 

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

 

 

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31


 

  For the Lord will not cast off for ever;  

 

 

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32


 

  but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:  

 

 

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33


 

  for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.  

 

 

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34


 

  To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,  

 

 

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35


 

  to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,  

 

 

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36


 

  to wrong a man in his cause, -- will not the Lord see it?  

 

 

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37


 

  Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?  

 

 

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38


 

  Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?  

 

 

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39


 

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

 

 

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40


 

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

 

 

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41


 

  Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto łGod in the heavens.  

 

 

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42


 

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

 

 

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43


 

  Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.  

 

 

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44


 

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

 

 

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45


 

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

 

 

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46


 

  All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.  

 

 

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47


 

  Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.  

 

 

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48


 

  Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people.  

 

 

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49


 

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

 

 

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50


 

  till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.  

 

 

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51


 

  Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.  

 

 

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52


 

  They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.  

 

 

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53


 

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

 

 

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54


 

  Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.  

 

 

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55


 

  I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.  

 

 

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56


 

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

 

 

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57


 

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

 

 

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58


 

  Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.  

 

 

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59


 

  Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.  

 

 

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60


 

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

 

 

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61


 

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

 

 

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62


 

  the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.  

 

 

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63


 

  Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.  

 

 

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64


 

  Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;  

 

 

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65


 

  give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;  

 

 

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66


 

  pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.  

 

 

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Lamentations 4

 

 

 

 

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