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Lamentations 3:1¹I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of the Lord ’s wrath.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 88:7 Job 19:21 Ps 88:15-16 Isa 53:3 Jer 15:17-18 Jer 20:14-18 Jer 38:6 Lam 1:12-14 Ps 71:20

Lamentations 3:2²He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:9 Job 30:26 Amos 5:18-20 Deut 28:29 Jer 13:16 Jer 4:23 Job 18:18 Jude 1:13 Jude 1:6 Lam 2:1

Lamentations 3:3³He repeatedly attacks me; he turns his hand against me all day long. ב (Bet )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 29:20 Isa 1:25 Isa 5:25 Isa 63:10 Job 31:21 Lam 2:4-7

Lamentations 3:4⁴He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 38:13 Ps 51:8 Jer 50:17 Ps 31:9-10 Ps 38:2-8 Ps 102:3-5 Job 16:8-9 Ps 22:14 Ps 32:3

Lamentations 3:5⁵He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 3:19 Jer 23:15 Job 19:8 Jer 8:14 Jer 9:15 Lam 3:7-9 Ps 69:21

Lamentations 3:6⁶He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. ג (Gimel )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 88:5-6 Ps 143:3 Ps 143:7

Lamentations 3:7⁷He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 19:8 Job 3:23 Hos 2:6 Jer 38:6 Jer 40:4 Lam 1:14 Ps 88:8 Dan 9:12 Lam 3:9 Lam 5:5

Lamentations 3:8⁸Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 30:20 Ps 22:2 Job 19:7 Lam 3:44 Matt 27:46 Hab 1:2 Ps 80:4

Lamentations 3:9⁹He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. ד (Dalet )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 63:17 Hos 2:6 Isa 30:28 Lam 3:11

Lamentations 3:10¹⁰To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 5:18-20 Hos 13:7-8 Hos 5:14 Hos 6:1 Isa 38:13 Job 10:16 Ps 10:9 Ps 17:12

Lamentations 3:11¹¹He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hos 6:1 Job 16:12-13 Lam 1:13 Dan 2:40-44 Dan 7:23 Isa 3:26 Jer 19:8 Jer 32:43 Jer 5:6 Jer 51:20-22

Lamentations 3:12¹²He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow. ה (He )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 38:2 Job 7:20 Job 6:4 Lam 2:4 Ps 7:12-13 Job 16:12-13

Lamentations 3:13¹³He shot his arrows into my heart.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 6:4 Deut 32:23 Job 41:28

Lamentations 3:14¹⁴I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 20:7 Lam 3:63 Ps 22:6-7 1 Cor 4:9-13 Jer 48:27 Job 30:1-9 Matt 27:39-44 Neh 4:2-4 Ps 123:3-4 Ps 137:3

Lamentations 3:15¹⁵He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. ו (Vav )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:15 Isa 51:17-22 Jer 23:15 Jer 25:15-18 Jer 25:27 Job 9:18 Lam 3:19 Ps 60:3 Ruth 1:20

Lamentations 3:16¹⁶He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 20:17 Jer 6:26 Ps 3:7 Ps 58:6 Job 2:8 Job 4:10 Jonah 3:6 Luke 11:11 Matt 7:9 Ps 102:9

Lamentations 3:17¹⁷I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:11 Gen 41:30 Isa 38:17 Isa 54:10 Jer 14:19 Jer 16:5 Jer 20:14-18 Jer 8:15 Job 7:7 Lam 1:16

Lamentations 3:18¹⁸So I said, “My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord.” ז (Zayin )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 17:15 1 Sam 27:1 Ezek 37:11 Job 6:11 Ps 116:11 Ps 31:22

Lamentations 3:19¹⁹Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 3:15 Lam 3:5 Jer 9:15 Job 7:7 Neh 9:32 Ps 132:1 Ps 89:47 Ps 89:50

Lamentations 3:20²⁰I continually think about this, and I am depressed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 42:11 Ps 42:5-6 Job 21:6 Ps 43:5 Ps 146:8 Ps 44:25

Lamentations 3:21²¹But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope: ח (Khet )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:3 Ps 130:7 Ps 77:7-11 Lam 3:24-29 Ps 119:81

Lamentations 3:22²²The Lord ’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 86:15 Luke 1:50 Neh 9:31 Mic 7:18-19 Mal 3:6 Ps 78:38 Ps 106:45 Ps 77:8 Ezek 20:8-9 Ezra 9:8-9

Lamentations 3:23²³They are fresh every morning; your faithfulness is abundant!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 10:23 Ps 30:5 Isa 33:2 Ps 36:5 Ps 89:33 Zeph 3:5 Exod 34:6 Ps 146:6 Heb 6:18 Titus 1:2

Lamentations 3:24²⁴“My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him. ט (Tet )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 73:26 Ps 16:5 Ps 142:5 Lam 3:21 Ps 33:18 Jer 51:19 Job 13:15 Ps 31:24 Ps 62:8 1 Chr 5:20

Lamentations 3:25²⁵The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 7:7-8 Isa 40:31 Ps 130:5-6 Lam 3:26 Ps 37:34 Ps 40:1-5 Ps 27:14 Ps 37:7 Isa 25:9 Isa 30:18

Lamentations 3:26²⁶It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 37:7 Ps 37:34 Ps 130:5 Gen 49:18 Heb 10:35 1 Pet 1:13 Heb 3:14 Isa 30:15 Ps 119:166 2 Chr 20:17

Lamentations 3:27²⁷It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young. י (Yod )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 12:1 Matt 11:29-30 Ps 119:71 Ps 94:12 Heb 12:5-12 Ps 90:12

Lamentations 3:28²⁸Let a person sit alone in silence, when the Lord is disciplining him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 15:17 Lam 2:10 Ps 102:7 Ps 39:9

Lamentations 3:29²⁹Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 40:4 2 Chr 33:12 Ezek 16:63 Jer 31:17 Job 42:5-6 Joel 2:14 Jonah 3:9 Luke 15:18-19 Luke 18:13 Rom 3:19

Lamentations 3:30³⁰Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults. כ (Kaf )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 50:6 Job 16:10 Matt 26:67 Matt 5:39 2 Cor 11:20 Luke 6:29 Mic 5:1 Ps 123:3 Ps 69:20 Ps 69:9

Lamentations 3:31³¹For the Lord will not reject us forever.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 94:14 Ps 103:8-10 Ps 77:7 Isa 54:7-10 1 Sam 12:22 Isa 57:16 Jer 32:40 Jer 31:37 Jer 33:24 Mic 7:18

Lamentations 3:32³²Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 78:38 Ps 30:5 Ps 103:11 Exod 3:7 Hos 11:8 Judg 10:16 Ps 106:43-45 Jer 31:20 Luke 15:20 2 Kgs 13:23

Lamentations 3:33³³For he is not predisposed to afflict or to grieve people. ל (Lamed )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 33:11 Ezek 18:32 Heb 12:9-10 Isa 28:21

Lamentations 3:34³⁴To crush underfoot all the earth’s prisoners,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 9:11-12 Isa 51:22-23 Isa 49:9 Jer 51:33-36 Ps 102:20 Ps 69:33 Isa 14:17 Ps 79:11 Jer 50:17 Jer 50:33-34

Lamentations 3:35³⁵to deprive a person of his rights in the presence of the Most High,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Lamentations 3:36³⁶to defraud a person in a lawsuit— the Lord does not approve of such things! מ (Mem )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:15 Hab 1:13 2 Sam 11:27 Jer 22:3

Lamentations 3:37³⁷Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 33:9-11 Isa 46:10 Prov 16:9 Prov 19:21 Prov 21:30 Dan 4:35 Eph 1:11 Jas 4:13-15 Rom 9:15

Lamentations 3:38³⁸Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes— both calamity and blessing?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 45:7 Amos 3:6 Jer 32:42 Job 2:10 Ps 75:7 Prov 29:26

Lamentations 3:39³⁹Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins? נ (Nun )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 7:9 Prov 19:3 Gen 4:5-7 Jer 30:15 2 Kgs 3:13 2 Kgs 6:32 2 Sam 6:7-8 Ezra 9:13 Gen 4:13-14 Heb 12:5-12

Lamentations 3:40⁴⁰Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 13:5 Ps 139:23-24 Joel 2:12-13 Isa 55:7 Ps 4:4 Ps 119:59 Hag 1:5-9 Hos 6:1 Hos 14:1-3 1 Cor 11:28

Lamentations 3:41⁴¹Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 25:1 Ps 28:2 Ps 143:6-8 Ps 86:4 1 Thess 2:8 Ps 141:2 Ps 63:4

Lamentations 3:42⁴²“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.” ס (Samek )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 5:7-9 Luke 15:18-19 Neh 9:26 2 Kgs 24:4 Dan 9:5-14 Ezek 24:13 Jer 3:13 Job 33:27-28 Lam 1:18 Lam 5:16

Lamentations 3:43⁴³You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 2:17 Lam 2:21 Lam 2:1-2 Lam 3:66 Ps 83:15 2 Chr 36:16-17 Ezek 7:9 Ezek 8:18 Ezek 9:10 Ps 44:19

Lamentations 3:44⁴⁴You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer could get through.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 3:8 Zech 7:13 Ps 97:2 Jer 15:1 Jer 14:11 Ps 80:4

Lamentations 3:45⁴⁵You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations. פ (Pe )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:13 Deut 28:13 Deut 28:37 Deut 28:44 Lam 2:15 Lam 3:14 Lam 4:14-15

Lamentations 3:46⁴⁶All our enemies have gloated over us;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 2:16 Ps 22:6-8 Exod 11:7 Job 30:9-11 Matt 27:38-45 Ps 44:13-14 Ps 79:10 Ps 79:4

Lamentations 3:47⁴⁷panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 24:17-18 Isa 51:19 Jer 48:43-44 Lam 1:13 Lam 1:4 Lam 2:1-9 Luke 21:35

Lamentations 3:48⁴⁸Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. ע (Ayin )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:1 Jer 9:18 Lam 2:11 Jer 13:17 Jer 4:19 Lam 1:16 Lam 2:18 Ps 119:136 Rom 9:1-3

Lamentations 3:49⁴⁹Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no breakCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 14:17 Ps 77:2 Lam 1:16

Lamentations 3:50⁵⁰until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees what has happened.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 63:15 Lam 5:1 Ps 102:19-20 Ps 80:14-16 Dan 9:16-19 Isa 62:6-7 Isa 64:1 Lam 2:20

Lamentations 3:51⁵¹What my eyes see grieves me — all the suffering of the daughters in my city. צ (Tsade )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 19:9 Luke 19:41-44 1 Sam 30:3-4 Jer 11:22 Jer 14:16 Jer 14:18 Jer 4:19-21 Lam 1:18 Lam 2:21 Lam 5:11

Lamentations 3:52⁵²For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 35:19 Ps 35:7 1 Sam 24:10-15 1 Sam 25:28-29 1 Sam 26:18-20 Jer 37:15-16 Jer 37:18 Jer 38:4-6 John 15:25 Ps 109:3

Lamentations 3:53⁵³They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 6:17 Jer 38:6 Jer 38:9 Jer 37:16 Jer 37:20 Matt 27:60 Matt 27:66

Lamentations 3:54⁵⁴The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die. ק (Qof )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jonah 2:3-5 Ezek 37:11 2 Cor 1:8-10 Lam 3:18 Ps 18:4 Isa 38:10-13 Job 17:11-16 Ps 124:4-5 Ps 31:22 Ps 69:1-2

Lamentations 3:55⁵⁵I have called on your name, O Lord, from the deepest pit.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 16:24-28 2 Chr 33:11-12 Jer 38:6 Jonah 2:2-4 Ps 116:3-4 Ps 130:1-2 Ps 142:3-7 Ps 18:5-6 Ps 40:1-2 Ps 69:13-18

Lamentations 3:56⁵⁶You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 38:5 Job 34:28 Ps 34:6 Ps 55:1 Ps 6:8-9 Ps 88:13-14 2 Chr 33:13 Ps 116:1-2 Ps 3:4 Ps 66:19

Lamentations 3:57⁵⁷You came near on the day I called to you; you said, “Do not fear!” ר (Resh )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 41:10 Jas 4:8 Isa 58:9 Isa 41:14 Rev 2:10 Isa 43:1-2 Ps 145:18 Acts 18:9 Acts 27:24 Jer 1:17

Lamentations 3:58⁵⁸O Lord, you championed my cause; you redeemed my life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 34:22-35:1 Jer 51:36 Ps 103:4 Jer 50:34 Ps 71:23 Gen 48:16 1 Sam 25:39

Lamentations 3:59⁵⁹You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; pronounce judgment on my behalf!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 43:1 1 Pet 2:23 Gen 31:42 Ps 26:1 Ps 35:1 Ps 9:4 Jer 18:18-23 Jer 20:7-10 Jer 37:1-21 Ps 35:23

Lamentations 3:60⁶⁰You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. ש (Sin/Shin )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 11:19-20 Lam 3:59 Ps 10:14

Lamentations 3:61⁶¹You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lam 5:1 Ps 89:50 Zeph 2:8 Ps 74:18 Lam 3:30

Lamentations 3:62⁶²My assailants revile and conspire against me all day long.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 36:3 Ps 140:3 Ps 59:12 Ps 59:7 Jer 18:18

Lamentations 3:63⁶³Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs. ת (Tav )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 139:2 Lam 3:14 Job 30:9

Lamentations 3:64⁶⁴Pay them back what they deserve, O Lord, according to what they have done.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 28:4 Jer 11:20 2 Tim 4:14 Rev 6:10 Jer 50:29 Rev 18:6

Lamentations 3:65⁶⁵Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 6:10 1 Cor 16:22 Deut 2:30 Deut 27:15-26 Ps 109:17-18

Lamentations 3:66⁶⁶Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the Lord ’s heaven.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 8:3 Deut 25:19 Jer 10:11 Lam 3:43 Ps 115:16 2 Kgs 14:27 Deut 29:20 Deut 7:24 Isa 66:1 Ps 35:6

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