{"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/web/lamentations/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:19:17.698Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Surely against me he turns his hand again and again 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 surrounded me with gall and travail."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"He is to me as a bear lying in wait, 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 shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"My soul still remembers them, 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] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh."},{"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 has laid it on him."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"For the Lord will not cast off forever."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For though he cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"For he does 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 doesn't approve."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?"},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?"},{"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 Yahweh."},{"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 pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied."},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"You have made us an off-scouring 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 on us, devastation and destruction."},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people."},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,"},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"Until Yahweh look down, and see from heaven."},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city."},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause."},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me."},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off."},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon."},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"You heard my voice; don't hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry."},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don't be afraid."},{"verseNumber":58,"text":"Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life."},{"verseNumber":59,"text":"Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause."},{"verseNumber":60,"text":"You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me."},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices 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":"You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song."},{"verseNumber":64,"text":"You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands."},{"verseNumber":65,"text":"You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them."},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh."}],"citation":{"inline":"Lamentations 3 (WEB)","markdown":"[Lamentations 3](https://primebible.com/web/lamentations/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/lamentations/3 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}