{"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/drb/lamentations/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T23:28:52.364Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Lamentations","bookSlug":"lamentations","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":66},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches. "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever. "},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. "},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men. "},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, "},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High, "},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved. "},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not? "},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest? "},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? "},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord. "},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens. "},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. "},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared. "},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through. "},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people. "},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. "},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction. "},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. "},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest: "},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens. "},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city. "},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause. "},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. "},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off. "},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit. "},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries. "},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not. "},{"verseNumber":58,"text":"Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life. "},{"verseNumber":59,"text":"Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment. "},{"verseNumber":60,"text":"Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me. "},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me. "},{"verseNumber":62,"text":"Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day. "},{"verseNumber":63,"text":"Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song. "},{"verseNumber":64,"text":"Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. "},{"verseNumber":65,"text":"Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. "},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 3 (DRB)","markdown":"[Lamentations 3](https://primebible.com/drb/lamentations/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/lamentations/3 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}