Lamentations 3 | BSB Bible Study

Lamentations 3:1 (BSB)
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

Lamentations 3:2 (BSB)
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

Lamentations 3:3 (BSB)
Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

Lamentations 3:4 (BSB)
He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

Lamentations 3:5 (BSB)
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Lamentations 3:6 (BSB)
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

Lamentations 3:7 (BSB)
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

Lamentations 3:8 (BSB)
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Lamentations 3:9 (BSB)
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

Lamentations 3:10 (BSB)
He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

Lamentations 3:11 (BSB)
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.

Lamentations 3:12 (BSB)
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

Lamentations 3:13 (BSB)
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

Lamentations 3:14 (BSB)
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Lamentations 3:15 (BSB)
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:16 (BSB)
He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

Lamentations 3:17 (BSB)
My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

Lamentations 3:18 (BSB)
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

Lamentations 3:19 (BSB)
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:20 (BSB)
Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

Lamentations 3:21 (BSB)
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Lamentations 3:22 (BSB)
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

Lamentations 3:23 (BSB)
They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

Lamentations 3:24 (BSB)
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

Lamentations 3:25 (BSB)
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

Lamentations 3:26 (BSB)
It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Lamentations 3:27 (BSB)
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

Lamentations 3:28 (BSB)
Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.

Lamentations 3:29 (BSB)
Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

Lamentations 3:30 (BSB)
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

Lamentations 3:31 (BSB)
For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

Lamentations 3:32 (BSB)
Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Lamentations 3:33 (BSB)
For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

Lamentations 3:34 (BSB)
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

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to deny a man justice before the Most High,

Lamentations 3:36 (BSB)
to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.

Lamentations 3:37 (BSB)
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

Lamentations 3:38 (BSB)
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

Lamentations 3:39 (BSB)
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

Lamentations 3:40 (BSB)
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

Lamentations 3:41 (BSB)
Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

Lamentations 3:42 (BSB)
“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

Lamentations 3:43 (BSB)
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

Lamentations 3:44 (BSB)
You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

Lamentations 3:45 (BSB)
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

Lamentations 3:46 (BSB)
All our enemies open their mouths against us.

Lamentations 3:47 (BSB)
Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.

Lamentations 3:48 (BSB)
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:49 (BSB)
My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

Lamentations 3:50 (BSB)
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

Lamentations 3:51 (BSB)
My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 3:52 (BSB)
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

Lamentations 3:53 (BSB)
They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

Lamentations 3:54 (BSB)
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

Lamentations 3:55 (BSB)
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

Lamentations 3:56 (BSB)
You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

Lamentations 3:57 (BSB)
You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”

Lamentations 3:58 (BSB)
You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

Lamentations 3:59 (BSB)
You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

Lamentations 3:60 (BSB)
You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

Lamentations 3:61 (BSB)
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

Lamentations 3:62 (BSB)
the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

Lamentations 3:63 (BSB)
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

Lamentations 3:64 (BSB)
You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Lamentations 3:65 (BSB)
Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!

Lamentations 3:66 (BSB)
You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

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