Thematic Bible
Lamentations 3:1 (show verse)
I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:2 (show verse)
By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
Lamentations 3:3 (show verse)
Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.
Lamentations 3:4 (show verse)
My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.
Lamentations 3:5 (show verse)
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
Lamentations 3:6 (show verse)
He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
Lamentations 3:7 (show verse)
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.
Lamentations 3:8 (show verse)
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
Lamentations 3:9 (show verse)
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
Lamentations 3:10 (show verse)
He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3:11 (show verse)
By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.
Lamentations 3:12 (show verse)
With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.
Lamentations 3:13 (show verse)
He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
Lamentations 3:14 (show verse)
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
Lamentations 3:15 (show verse)
He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
Lamentations 3:16 (show verse)
By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.
Lamentations 3:17 (show verse)
My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.
Lamentations 3:18 (show verse)
And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
Lamentations 3:19 (show verse)
Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
Lamentations 3:20 (show verse)
My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
Lamentations 3:21 (show verse)
This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:22 (show verse)
It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
Lamentations 3:23 (show verse)
They are new every morning; great is your good faith.
Lamentations 3:24 (show verse)
I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.
Lamentations 3:25 (show verse)
The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
God » Voice of select readings » Waiting for
God, Goodness of » Manifested » To his church
Patience » In waiting for God
Seeking God » Ensures » His favor
Waiting » Those that wait on the lord
Waiting » Those who engage in » Experience his goodness
Waiting upon God » They who engage in » Experience his goodness
God, Goodness of » Manifested » To his church
Patience » In waiting for God
Seeking God » Ensures » His favor
Waiting » Those that wait on the lord
Waiting » Those who engage in » Experience his goodness
Waiting upon God » They who engage in » Experience his goodness
Lamentations 3:26 (show verse)
It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:27 (show verse)
It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
Lamentations 3:28 (show verse)
Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
Lamentations 3:29 (show verse)
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:30 (show verse)
Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.
Lamentations 3:31 (show verse)
For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.
Lamentations 3:32 (show verse)
For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
Lamentations 3:33 (show verse)
For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.
Lamentations 3:34 (show verse)
In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
Lamentations 3:35 (show verse)
In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.
Lamentations 3:36 (show verse)
In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.
Lamentations 3:37 (show verse)
Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
Lamentations 3:38 (show verse)
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Lamentations 3:39 (show verse)
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
Afflicted saints » Should acknowledge the justice of their chastisements
Afflictions » The lord not afflicting
Anger of God » To be born with submission
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Murmuring » Condemned
Murmuring » Unreasonableness of
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Sin
Resignation » Motives to » Our own sinfulness
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Afflictions » The lord not afflicting
Anger of God » To be born with submission
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Murmuring » Condemned
Murmuring » Unreasonableness of
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Sin
Resignation » Motives to » Our own sinfulness
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Lamentations 3:40 (show verse)
Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;
Awakenings and religious reforms » Revivals (select reading, isa chap 35) isa 35 » General references to
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Self-examination
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With purpose of amendment
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With diligent search
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Complaining » What to do instead of complaining
Conversion » Through the instrumentality of » Self-examination
Revivals » Isa 35 » General references to
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With purpose of amendment
Self-examination » Should be engaged in » With diligent search
Trial » What to try
Turning » Turning to the lord
Lamentations 3:41 (show verse)
Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.
Lamentations 3:42 (show verse)
We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:43 (show verse)
Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
Lamentations 3:44 (show verse)
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:45 (show verse)
You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:46 (show verse)
The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:47 (show verse)
Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:48 (show verse)
Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Lamentations 3:49 (show verse)
My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,
Lamentations 3:50 (show verse)
Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
Lamentations 3:51 (show verse)
The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
Lamentations 3:52 (show verse)
They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
Lamentations 3:53 (show verse)
They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
Lamentations 3:54 (show verse)
Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
Lamentations 3:55 (show verse)
I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
Lamentations 3:56 (show verse)
My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.
Lamentations 3:57 (show verse)
You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:58 (show verse)
O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.
Lamentations 3:59 (show verse)
O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:60 (show verse)
You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:61 (show verse)
Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:62 (show verse)
The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.
No Themes for this verse.
Lamentations 3:63 (show verse)
Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
Lamentations 3:64 (show verse)
You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65 (show verse)
You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.
Lamentations 3:66 (show verse)
You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.