Lamentations 3

1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.Cross-references: Job 19:21 · Ps 71:20 · Ps 88:7 · Ps 88:15 · Isa 53:3 · Jer 15:17 · +3 more

2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.Cross-references: Deut 28:29 · Job 18:18 · Job 30:26 · Isa 59:9 · Jer 4:23 · Jer 13:16 · +5 more

3Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.Cross-references: Deut 29:20 · Job 31:21 · Isa 1:25 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 63:10 · Lam 2:4

4He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.Cross-references: Job 16:8 · Ps 22:14 · Ps 31:9 · Ps 32:3 · Ps 38:2 · Ps 51:8 · +3 more

5He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.Cross-references: Job 19:8 · Ps 69:21 · Jer 8:14 · Jer 9:15 · Jer 23:15 · Lam 3:7 · +1 more

6He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.Cross-references: Ps 88:5 · Ps 143:3 · Ps 143:7

7He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.Cross-references: Job 3:23 · Job 19:8 · Ps 88:8 · Jer 38:6 · Jer 40:4 · Lam 1:14 · +4 more

8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.Cross-references: Job 19:7 · Job 30:20 · Ps 22:2 · Ps 80:4 · Lam 3:44 · Hab 1:2 · +1 more

9He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.Cross-references: Isa 30:28 · Isa 63:17 · Lam 3:11 · Hos 2:6

10He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.Cross-references: Job 10:16 · Ps 10:9 · Ps 17:12 · Isa 38:13 · Hos 5:14 · Hos 6:1 · +2 more

11He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.Cross-references: Job 16:7 · Job 16:12 · Ps 50:22 · Isa 3:26 · Jer 5:6 · Jer 6:8 · +11 more

12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.Cross-references: Job 6:4 · Job 7:20 · Job 16:12 · Ps 7:12 · Ps 38:2 · Lam 2:4

13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.Cross-references: Deut 32:23 · Job 6:4 · Job 41:28

14I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.Cross-references: Neh 4:2 · Job 30:1 · Ps 22:6 · Ps 35:15 · Ps 44:13 · Ps 69:11 · +8 more

15He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.Cross-references: Ruth 1:20 · Job 9:18 · Ps 60:3 · Isa 51:17 · Jer 9:15 · Jer 23:15 · +3 more

16He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.Cross-references: Job 2:8 · Job 4:10 · Ps 3:7 · Ps 58:6 · Ps 102:9 · Prov 20:17 · +4 more

17You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.Cross-references: Gen 41:30 · Job 7:7 · Ps 119:155 · Isa 38:17 · Isa 54:10 · Isa 59:11 · +6 more

18I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”Cross-references: 1Sam 27:1 · Job 6:11 · Job 17:15 · Ps 31:22 · Ps 116:11 · Ezek 37:11

19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.Cross-references: Neh 9:32 · Job 7:7 · Ps 89:47 · Ps 89:50 · Ps 132:1 · Jer 9:15 · +2 more

20My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.Cross-references: Job 21:6 · Ps 42:5 · Ps 42:11 · Ps 43:5 · Ps 44:25 · Ps 146:8

21This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.Cross-references: Ps 77:7 · Ps 119:81 · Ps 130:7 · Lam 3:24 · Hab 2:3

22It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.Cross-references: Ezra 9:8 · Ezra 9:13 · Neh 9:31 · Ps 77:8 · Ps 78:38 · Ps 86:15 · +7 more

23They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Ps 30:5 · Ps 36:5 · Ps 89:1 · Ps 89:33 · Ps 146:6 · +5 more

24“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”Cross-references: 1Sam 30:6 · 1Chr 5:20 · Job 13:15 · Ps 16:5 · Ps 31:24 · Ps 33:18 · +13 more

25Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.Cross-references: Gen 49:18 · 1Chr 28:9 · 2Chr 15:2 · 2Chr 19:3 · 2Chr 30:19 · 2Chr 31:21 · +26 more

26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 49:18 · Ex 14:13 · 2Chr 20:17 · Ps 37:7 · Ps 37:34 · Ps 52:9 · +12 more

27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.Cross-references: Ps 90:12 · Ps 94:12 · Ps 119:71 · Eccl 12:1 · Matt 11:29 · Heb 12:5

28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.Cross-references: Ps 39:9 · Ps 102:7 · Jer 15:17 · Lam 2:10

29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:12 · Job 40:4 · Job 42:5 · Jer 31:17 · Ezek 16:63 · Joel 2:14 · +5 more

30Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.Cross-references: Job 16:10 · Ps 69:9 · Ps 69:20 · Ps 123:3 · Isa 50:6 · Mic 5:1 · +4 more

31For the Lord will not cast off forever.Cross-references: 1Sam 12:22 · Ps 77:7 · Ps 94:14 · Ps 103:8 · Isa 54:7 · Isa 57:16 · +5 more

32For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.Cross-references: Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:7 · Judg 10:16 · 2Ki 13:23 · Ps 30:5 · Ps 78:38 · +6 more

33For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.Cross-references: Isa 28:21 · Ezek 18:32 · Ezek 33:11 · Heb 12:9

34To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,Cross-references: Ps 69:33 · Ps 79:11 · Ps 102:20 · Isa 14:17 · Isa 49:9 · Isa 51:22 · +4 more

35to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

36to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.Cross-references: 2Sam 11:27 · Isa 59:15 · Jer 22:3 · Hab 1:13

37Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?Cross-references: Ps 33:9 · Prov 16:9 · Prov 19:21 · Prov 21:30 · Isa 46:10 · Dan 4:35 · +3 more

38Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?Cross-references: Job 2:10 · Ps 75:7 · Prov 29:26 · Isa 45:7 · Jer 32:42 · Amos 3:6

39Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?Cross-references: Gen 4:5 · Gen 4:13 · Lev 26:41 · Lev 26:43 · Num 11:11 · Num 16:41 · +17 more

40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 4:30 · 1Chr 15:12 · 2Chr 30:6 · 2Chr 30:9 · Job 11:13 · Job 34:31 · +15 more

41Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.Cross-references: Ps 25:1 · Ps 28:2 · Ps 63:4 · Ps 86:4 · Ps 141:2 · Ps 143:6 · +1 more

42“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:4 · Neh 9:26 · Job 33:27 · Jer 3:13 · Jer 5:7 · Lam 1:18 · +5 more

43“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:16 · Ps 44:19 · Ps 83:15 · Lam 2:1 · Lam 2:17 · Lam 2:21 · +4 more

44You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.Cross-references: Ps 80:4 · Ps 97:2 · Jer 14:11 · Jer 15:1 · Lam 3:8 · Zech 7:13

45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.Cross-references: Deut 28:13 · Deut 28:37 · Deut 28:44 · Lam 2:15 · Lam 3:14 · Lam 4:14 · +1 more

46“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.Cross-references: Ex 11:7 · Job 30:9 · Ps 22:6 · Ps 44:13 · Ps 79:4 · Ps 79:10 · +2 more

47Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”Cross-references: Isa 24:17 · Isa 51:19 · Jer 48:43 · Lam 1:4 · Lam 1:13 · Lam 2:1 · +1 more

48My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.Cross-references: Ps 119:136 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 9:18 · Jer 13:17 · Lam 1:16 · +3 more

49My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,Cross-references: Ps 77:2 · Jer 14:17 · Lam 1:16

50until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.Cross-references: Ps 80:14 · Ps 102:19 · Isa 62:6 · Isa 63:15 · Isa 64:1 · Lam 2:20 · +2 more

51My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.Cross-references: Gen 44:34 · 1Sam 30:3 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 11:22 · Jer 14:16 · Jer 14:18 · +5 more

52They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.Cross-references: 1Sam 24:10 · 1Sam 25:28 · 1Sam 26:18 · Ps 11:1 · Ps 35:7 · Ps 35:19 · +7 more

53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.Cross-references: Jer 37:16 · Jer 37:20 · Jer 38:6 · Jer 38:9 · Dan 6:17 · Matt 27:60 · +1 more

54Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”Cross-references: Job 17:11 · Ps 18:4 · Ps 31:22 · Ps 69:1 · Ps 69:15 · Ps 124:4 · +5 more

55I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:11 · Ps 18:5 · Ps 40:1 · Ps 69:13 · Ps 116:3 · Ps 130:1 · +4 more

56You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”Cross-references: 2Chr 33:13 · 2Chr 33:19 · Job 34:28 · Ps 3:4 · Ps 6:8 · Ps 34:6 · +6 more

57You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”Cross-references: Ps 69:18 · Ps 145:18 · Isa 41:10 · Isa 41:14 · Isa 43:1 · Isa 58:9 · +6 more

58Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.Cross-references: Gen 48:16 · 1Sam 25:39 · Ps 34:22 · Ps 71:23 · Ps 103:4 · Jer 50:34 · +1 more

59Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.Cross-references: Gen 31:42 · Ps 9:4 · Ps 26:1 · Ps 35:1 · Ps 35:23 · Ps 43:1 · +6 more

60You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.Cross-references: Ps 10:14 · Jer 11:19 · Lam 3:59

61You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,Cross-references: Ps 74:18 · Ps 89:50 · Lam 3:30 · Lam 5:1 · Zeph 2:8

62the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.Cross-references: Ps 59:7 · Ps 59:12 · Ps 140:3 · Jer 18:18 · Ezek 36:3

63You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.Cross-references: Job 30:9 · Ps 139:2 · Lam 3:14

64You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.Cross-references: Ps 28:4 · Jer 11:20 · Jer 50:29 · 2Tim 4:14 · Rev 6:10 · Rev 18:6

65You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.Cross-references: Deut 2:30 · Deut 27:15 · Ps 109:17 · Isa 6:10 · 1Cor 16:22

66You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 7:24 · Deut 25:19 · Deut 29:20 · 2Ki 14:27 · Ps 8:3 · Ps 35:6 · +5 more