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Lamentations 3 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:1 - I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:2 - By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:3 - Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:4 - My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:5 - He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:6 - He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:7 - He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:8 - Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:9 - He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:10 - He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:11 - By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:12 - With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:13 - He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:14 - I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:15 - He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:16 - By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:17 - My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:18 - And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

Hope of Relief in God's Mercy

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:19 - Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:20 - My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:21 - This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:22 - It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:23 - They are new every morning; great is your good faith.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:24 - I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:25 - The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:26 - It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:27 - It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:28 - Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:29 - Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:30 - Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:31 - For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:32 - For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:33 - For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:34 - In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:35 - In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:36 - In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:37 - Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:38 - Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:39 - What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:40 - Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:41 - Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:42 - We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:43 - Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:44 - Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:45 - You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:46

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:46 - The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:47 - Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:48

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:48 - Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:49 - My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:50 - Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:51

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:51 - The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:52

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:52 - They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:53 - They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:54

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:54 - Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:55

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:55 - I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:56

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:56 - My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:57

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:57 - You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:58

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:58 - O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:59

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:59 - O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:60

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:60 - You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:61

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:61 - Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:62

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:62 - The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:63

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:63 - Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:64

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:64 - You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:65

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:65 - You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:66

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:66 - You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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