Lamentations 3:1-18

21st Century King James Version

3 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

² He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

³ Surely against me is He turned; He turneth His hand against me all the day.

⁴ My flesh and my skin hath He made old; He hath broken my bones.

⁵ He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

⁶ He hath set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old.

⁷ He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out; He hath made my chain heavy.

⁸ Also when I cry and shout, He shutteth out my prayer.

⁹ He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He hath made my paths crooked.

¹⁰ He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

¹¹ He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.

¹² He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

¹³ He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.

¹⁴ I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitterness; He hath made me drunken with wormwood.

¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He hath covered me with ashes.

¹⁷ And Thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

¹⁸ And I said, “My strength and my hope are perished from the Lord,”