{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Lamentations",
 "chapter": 3,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:"
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "For the Lord will not cast off for ever:"
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men."
  },
  {
   "v": 34,
   "t": "To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,"
  },
  {
   "v": 35,
   "t": "To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,"
  },
  {
   "v": 36,
   "t": "To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not."
  },
  {
   "v": 37,
   "t": "Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
  },
  {
   "v": 38,
   "t": "Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?"
  },
  {
   "v": 39,
   "t": "Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?"
  },
  {
   "v": 40,
   "t": "Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD."
  },
  {
   "v": 41,
   "t": "Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens."
  },
  {
   "v": 42,
   "t": "We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned."
  },
  {
   "v": 43,
   "t": "Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied."
  },
  {
   "v": 44,
   "t": "Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through."
  },
  {
   "v": 45,
   "t": "Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people."
  },
  {
   "v": 46,
   "t": "All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."
  },
  {
   "v": 47,
   "t": "Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
  },
  {
   "v": 48,
   "t": "Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people."
  },
  {
   "v": 49,
   "t": "Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,"
  },
  {
   "v": 50,
   "t": "Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven."
  },
  {
   "v": 51,
   "t": "Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city."
  },
  {
   "v": 52,
   "t": "Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause."
  },
  {
   "v": 53,
   "t": "They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me."
  },
  {
   "v": 54,
   "t": "Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off."
  },
  {
   "v": 55,
   "t": "I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon."
  },
  {
   "v": 56,
   "t": "Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry."
  },
  {
   "v": 57,
   "t": "Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not."
  },
  {
   "v": 58,
   "t": "O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life."
  },
  {
   "v": 59,
   "t": "O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause."
  },
  {
   "v": 60,
   "t": "Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me."
  },
  {
   "v": 61,
   "t": "Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;"
  },
  {
   "v": 62,
   "t": "The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day."
  },
  {
   "v": 63,
   "t": "Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick."
  },
  {
   "v": 64,
   "t": "Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands."
  },
  {
   "v": 65,
   "t": "Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them."
  },
  {
   "v": 66,
   "t": "Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD."
  }
 ],
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