{"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/dbt/lamentations/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T23:35:58.546Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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 hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away, he hath broken my bones."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"He hath built against me, and encompassed me with gall and toil."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My soul hath them constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For the Lord will not cast off for ever;"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"To crush under foot 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 wrong a man in his cause, will not the Lord see it?"},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?"},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?"},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"Wherefore doth 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 Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned."},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples."},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"All our enemies have opened their mouth against us."},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin."},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people."},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,"},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens."},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city."},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird."},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me."},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off."},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit."},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry."},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not."},{"verseNumber":58,"text":"Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life."},{"verseNumber":59,"text":"Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause."},{"verseNumber":60,"text":"Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me."},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;"},{"verseNumber":62,"text":"the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day."},{"verseNumber":63,"text":"Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song."},{"verseNumber":64,"text":"Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;"},{"verseNumber":65,"text":"give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;"},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah."}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 3 (DBT)","markdown":"[Lamentations 3](https://primebible.com/dbt/lamentations/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/lamentations/3 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}