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Lamentations

1. 3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
2. 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
3. 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
4. 3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
5. 3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
6. 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
7. 3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
8. 3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
9. 3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
10. 3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
11. 3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
12. 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
13. 3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
14. 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
15. 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
16. 3:45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
17. 3:48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
18. 3:50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
19. 3:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
20. 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
21. 3:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
22. 3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
23. 3:58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
24. 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
25. 3:64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
26. 3:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
27. 4:1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
28. 4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
29. 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
30. 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
31. 4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
32. 4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
33. 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
34. 4:9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
35. 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
36. 4:11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
37. 4:12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
38. 4:13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
39. 4:14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
40. 4:15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
41. 4:16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
42. 4:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
43. 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
44. 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
45. 4:22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
46. 5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
47. 5:9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
48. 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
49. 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
50. 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.