{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/lamentations/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:58:50.800Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Lamentations","bookSlug":"lamentations","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":66},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I AM the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He has set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And you have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The LORD is my portion, said my soul; therefore will I hope in him."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it on him."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For the LORD will not cast off for ever:"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?"},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?"},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?"},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD."},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"We have transgressed and have rebelled: you have not pardoned."},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people."},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"Fear and a snare is come on us, desolation and destruction."},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"My eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people."},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"My eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission."},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city."},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"My enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause."},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me."},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off."},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"I called on your name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon."},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry."},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"You drew near in the day that I called on you: you said, Fear not."},{"verseNumber":58,"text":"O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life."},{"verseNumber":59,"text":"O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause."},{"verseNumber":60,"text":"You have seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me."},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;"},{"verseNumber":62,"text":"The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day."},{"verseNumber":63,"text":"Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music."},{"verseNumber":64,"text":"Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands."},{"verseNumber":65,"text":"Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them."},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD."}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 3 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Lamentations 3](https://primebible.com/akjv/lamentations/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/lamentations/3 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}