{"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/kjv/lamentations/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:37:46.860Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Lamentations","bookSlug":"lamentations","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":66},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I <i>am</i> the man <i>that</i> hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"He hath led me, and brought <i>me into</i> darkness, but not <i>into</i> light."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand <i>against me</i> 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 <i>me</i> with gall and travail."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He hath set me in dark places, as <i>they that be</i> dead of old."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Also 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 <i>was</i> unto me <i>as</i> a bear lying in wait, <i>and as</i> 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 was a derision to all my people; <i>and</i> their song all the day."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken 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 and my hope is perished from the LORD:"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My soul hath <i>them</i> still in remembrance, and is humbled in me."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"<i>It is of</i> the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"<i>They are</i> new every morning: great <i>is</i> thy faithfulness."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"The LORD <i>is</i> my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The LORD <i>is</i> good unto them that wait for him, to the soul <i>that</i> seeketh him."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"<i>It is</i> good that <i>a man</i> should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"<i>It is</i> good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne <i>it</i> upon him."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"He giveth <i>his</i> 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 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 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 approveth not."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"Who <i>is</i> he <i>that</i> saith, and it cometh to pass, <i>when</i> the Lord commandeth <i>it</i> not?"},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth 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 <i>our</i> 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 persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that <i>our</i> prayer should not pass through."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"Thou hast made us <i>as</i> the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people."},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation 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 trickleth 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 mine heart because of all the daughters of my city."},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"Mine 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 upon me."},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"Waters flowed over mine head; <i>then</i> I said, I am cut off."},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon."},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry."},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"Thou drewest near in the day <i>that</i> 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 <i>and</i> all their imaginations against me."},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, <i>and</i> 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 <i>am</i> their musick."},{"verseNumber":64,"text":"Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands."},{"verseNumber":65,"text":"Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them."},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD."}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 3 (KJV)","markdown":"[Lamentations 3](https://primebible.com/kjv/lamentations/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/lamentations/3 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}