{"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/erv/lamentations/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:30:21.865Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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":"He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He hath fenced me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Yea, when I cry and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as 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 shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I am become a derision to all my people; and their song all the day."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me 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 forgat prosperity."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LORD."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within 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 thy faithfulness."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may he hope."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For the Lord will not cast off for ever."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"For he doth not afflict willingly, nor 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 subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not 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 the LORD."},{"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 with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples."},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"all our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us."},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction."},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people."},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,"},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city."},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies without cause."},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me."},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"Waters flowed over mine head; I said, I am cut off."},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon."},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry."},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not."},{"verseNumber":58,"text":"O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life."},{"verseNumber":59,"text":"O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause."},{"verseNumber":60,"text":"Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me."},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their devices against me;"},{"verseNumber":62,"text":"The lips of those that rose up against me, and their imagination against me all the day."},{"verseNumber":63,"text":"Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song."},{"verseNumber":64,"text":"Thou wilt render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands."},{"verseNumber":65,"text":"Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them."},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD."}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 3 (ERV)","markdown":"[Lamentations 3](https://primebible.com/erv/lamentations/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/lamentations/3 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}