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Lamentations Chapter 3

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LAMENTATIONS

Lamentations 3

1I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.
Psalms 88:7, Psalms 88:7, Job 19:21, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 88:16
2He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.
Job 30:26, Isaiah 59:9, Job 30:26, Isaiah 59:9, Amos 5:18
3Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Isaiah 5:25, Deuteronomy 29:20, Job 31:21, Isaiah 63:10, Isaiah 1:25
4My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.
Isaiah 38:13, Psalms 51:8, Isaiah 38:13, Psalms 51:8, Jeremiah 50:17
5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.
Lamentations 3:19, Lamentations 3:19, Jeremiah 23:15, Jeremiah 23:15, Job 19:8
6He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.
Psalms 143:3, Psalms 88:5, Psalms 88:6, Psalms 143:3, Psalms 88:5
7He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
Job 3:23, Job 19:8, Job 3:23, Job 19:8, Psalms 88:8
8Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.
Job 30:20, Psalms 22:2, Job 30:20, Psalms 22:2, Job 19:7
9He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
Isaiah 63:17, Isaiah 63:17, Lamentations 3:11, Hosea 2:6, Isaiah 30:28
10He was vnto me as a beare lying in waite, and as a Lion in secret places.
Hosea 6:1, Amos 5:18, Amos 5:20, Psalms 10:9, Hosea 13:7
11He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
Hosea 6:1, Hosea 6:1, Job 16:12, Job 16:13, Job 16:12
12He hath bent his bow and made me a marke for the arrow.
Psalms 38:2, Psalms 38:2, Job 7:20, Job 7:20, Psalms 7:12
13Hee caused the arrowes of his quiuer to enter into my reines.
Job 6:4, Job 6:4, Deuteronomy 32:23, Job 41:28, Deuteronomy 32:23
14I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 20:7, Lamentations 3:63, Lamentations 3:63, Psalms 22:6
15He hath filled me with bitternes, and made me drunken with wormewood.
Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 9:15, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22, Lamentations 3:19
16He hath also broken my teeth with stones, and hath couered me with ashes.
Proverbs 20:17, Proverbs 20:17, Jeremiah 6:26, Jeremiah 6:26, Psalms 58:6
17Thus my soule was farre off from peace: I forgate prosperitie,
Isaiah 59:11, Isaiah 59:11, Psalms 119:155, Lamentations 1:16, Isaiah 54:10
18And I saide, My strength and mine hope is perished from the Lord,
Job 17:15, Job 17:15, 1 Samuel 27:1, Job 6:11, Psalms 31:22
19Remembring mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:15, Lamentations 3:15, Lamentations 3:5, Lamentations 3:5, Nehemiah 9:32
20My soule hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Psalms 42:11, Psalms 42:5, Psalms 42:6, Psalms 42:11, Psalms 42:5
21I consider this in mine heart: therefore haue I hope.
Habakkuk 2:3, Habakkuk 2:3, Psalms 130:7, Psalms 130:7, Psalms 77:7
22It is the Lordes mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
Psalms 86:15, Psalms 86:15, Luke 1:50, Luke 1:50, Nehemiah 9:31
23They are renued euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.
Hebrews 10:23, Hebrews 10:23, Psalms 30:5, Psalms 30:5, Isaiah 33:2
24The Lord is my portion, sayth my soule: therefore wil I hope in him.
Psalms 73:26, Psalms 73:26, Psalms 16:5, Psalms 16:5, Psalms 142:5
25The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule that seeketh him.
Micah 7:7, Micah 7:8, Micah 7:7, Micah 7:8, Isaiah 40:31
26It is good both to trust, and to waite for the saluation of the Lord.
Psalms 37:7, Psalms 37:7, Psalms 37:34, Psalms 37:34, Psalms 130:5
27It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth.
Ecclesiastes 12:1, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Matthew 11:29, Matthew 11:30, Matthew 11:29
28He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it vpon him.
Jeremiah 15:17, Jeremiah 15:17, Lamentations 2:10, Lamentations 2:10, Psalms 102:7
29He putteth his mouth in the dust, if there may be hope.
Job 40:4, Job 40:4, Luke 18:13, Job 42:5, Job 42:6
30Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproches.
Isaiah 50:6, Job 16:10, Isaiah 50:6, Job 16:10, Matthew 5:39
31For the Lord will not forsake for euer.
Psalms 94:14, Psalms 94:14, Psalms 77:7, Psalms 77:7, Psalms 103:8
32But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Psalms 78:38, Psalms 78:38, Psalms 30:5, Psalms 103:11, Psalms 30:5
33For he doeth not punish willingly, nor afflict the children of men,
Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 18:32, Ezekiel 18:32, Hebrews 12:9
34In stamping vnder his feete all the prisoners of the earth,
Zechariah 9:11, Zechariah 9:12, Zechariah 9:11, Zechariah 9:12, Isaiah 51:22
35In ouerthrowing the right of a man before the face of the most high,
36In subuerting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.
Habakkuk 1:13, Isaiah 59:15, Habakkuk 1:13, Isaiah 59:15, Jeremiah 22:3
37Who is he then that sayth, and it commeth to passe, and the Lord commandeth it not?
Psalms 33:9, Psalms 33:11, Psalms 33:9, Psalms 33:11, Isaiah 46:10
38Out of the mouth of the most high proceedeth not euill and good?
Isaiah 45:7, Isaiah 45:7, Amos 3:6, Amos 3:6, Job 2:10
39Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.
Proverbs 19:3, Micah 7:9, Proverbs 19:3, Micah 7:9, Jeremiah 30:15
40Let vs search and try our wayes, and turne againe to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 13:5, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Psalms 139:23
41Let vs lift vp our hearts with our handes vnto God in the heauens.
Psalms 25:1, Psalms 25:1, Psalms 28:2, Psalms 28:2, Psalms 143:6
42We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.
Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:26, Lamentations 5:16, Lamentations 1:18, Jeremiah 3:13
43Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.
Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 2:21, Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 2:21, Psalms 83:15
44Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.
Lamentations 3:8, Lamentations 3:8, Zechariah 7:13, Zechariah 7:13, Psalms 97:2
45Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.
1 Corinthians 4:13, 1 Corinthians 4:13, Deuteronomy 28:44, Deuteronomy 28:13, Deuteronomy 28:37
46All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.
Lamentations 2:16, Lamentations 2:16, Psalms 22:6, Psalms 22:8, Psalms 22:6
47Feare, and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction.
Isaiah 51:19, Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, Isaiah 51:19, Isaiah 24:17
48Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 2:11, Jeremiah 9:1, Lamentations 2:11, Jeremiah 9:1, Lamentations 2:18
49Mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not,
Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 14:17, Psalms 77:2, Psalms 77:2, Lamentations 1:16
50Till the Lord looke downe, and beholde from heauen.
Isaiah 63:15, Isaiah 63:15, Lamentations 5:1, Lamentations 5:1, Psalms 102:19
51Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.
Luke 19:41, Luke 19:44, Luke 19:41, Luke 19:44, Lamentations 1:18
52Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.
Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:19, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:19, Jeremiah 37:18
53They haue shut vp my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone vpon me.
Jeremiah 38:9, Daniel 6:17, Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:9, Daniel 6:17
54Waters flowed ouer mine head, then thought I, I am destroyed.
Jonah 2:3, Jonah 2:5, Jonah 2:3, Jonah 2:5, Ezekiel 37:11
55I called vpon thy Name, O Lord, out of the lowe dungeon.
Acts 16:24, Acts 16:28, Acts 16:24, Acts 16:28, Psalms 18:5
56Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.
Job 34:28, Psalms 55:1, Job 34:28, Psalms 55:1, Psalms 34:6
57Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saydest, Feare not.
Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:10, James 4:8, James 4:8, Isaiah 58:9
58O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my life.
Psalms 34:22, Psalms 35:1, Psalms 34:22, Psalms 35:1, Jeremiah 51:36
59O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.
Psalms 43:1, Psalms 43:1, 1 Peter 2:23, Psalms 35:1, Genesis 31:42
60Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises against me.
Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 11:20, Lamentations 3:59
61Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:
Lamentations 5:1, Lamentations 5:1, Zephaniah 2:8, Psalms 74:18, Psalms 89:50
62The lippes also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.
Ezekiel 36:3, Ezekiel 36:3, Psalms 140:3, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 59:7
63Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.
Psalms 139:2, Lamentations 3:14, Psalms 139:2, Lamentations 3:14, Job 30:9
64Giue them a recompence, O Lord, according to the worke of their handes.
Psalms 28:4, Psalms 28:4, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 11:20, 2 Timothy 4:14
65Giue them sorow of heart, euen thy curse to them.
Isaiah 6:10, Isaiah 6:10, Deuteronomy 2:30, Deuteronomy 2:30, 1 Corinthians 16:22
66Persecute with wrath and destroy them from vnder the heauen, O Lord.
Psalms 8:3, Psalms 8:3, Jeremiah 10:11, Lamentations 3:43, Deuteronomy 25:19

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