Links to all Books and Chapters Today's Date: ======= Lamentations 3:1 ============ Lam 3:1 I am the man who has seen affliction Because of the rod of His wrath. (nasb) Lam 3:1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.(kjv) Lam 3:1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:2 ============ Lam 3:2 He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. (nasb) Lam 3:2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.(kjv) Lam 3:2 He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:3 ============ Lam 3:3 Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day. (nasb) Lam 3:3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.(kjv) Lam 3:3 Surely He has turned His hand against me Time and time again throughout the day.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:4 ============ Lam 3:4 He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones. (nasb) Lam 3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.(kjv) Lam 3:4 He has aged my flesh and my skin, And broken my bones.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:5 ============ Lam 3:5 He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship. (nasb) Lam 3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.(kjv) Lam 3:5 He has besieged me And surrounded me with bitterness and woe.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:6 ============ Lam 3:6 In dark places He has made me dwell, Like those who have long been dead. (nasb) Lam 3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.(kjv) Lam 3:6 He has set me in dark places Like the dead of long ago.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:7 ============ Lam 3:7 He has walled me in so that I cannot go out; He has made my chain heavy. (nasb) Lam 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.(kjv) Lam 3:7 He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:8 ============ Lam 3:8 Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer. (nasb) Lam 3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.(kjv) Lam 3:8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:9 ============ Lam 3:9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked. (nasb) Lam 3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.(kjv) Lam 3:9 He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:10 ============ Lam 3:10 He is to me like a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in secret places. (nasb) Lam 3:10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.(kjv) Lam 3:10 He has been to me a bear lying in wait, Like a lion in ambush.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:11 ============ Lam 3:11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate. (nasb) Lam 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.(kjv) Lam 3:11 He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces; He has made me desolate.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:12 ============ Lam 3:12 He bent His bow And set me as a target for the arrow. (nasb) Lam 3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.(kjv) Lam 3:12 He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:13 ============ Lam 3:13 He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts. (nasb) Lam 3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.(kjv) Lam 3:13 He has caused the arrows of His quiver To pierce my loins.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:14 ============ Lam 3:14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day. (nasb) Lam 3:14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.(kjv) Lam 3:14 I have become the ridicule of all my people-- Their taunting song all the day.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:15 ============ Lam 3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunk with wormwood. (nasb) Lam 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.(kjv) Lam 3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:16 ============ Lam 3:16 He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust. (nasb) Lam 3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.(kjv) Lam 3:16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:17 ============ Lam 3:17 My soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness. (nasb) Lam 3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.(kjv) Lam 3:17 You have moved my soul far from peace; I have forgotten prosperity.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:18 ============ Lam 3:18 So I say, "My strength has perished, And so has my hope from the Lord." (nasb) Lam 3:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:(kjv) Lam 3:18 And I said, "My strength and my hope Have perished from the Lord."(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:19 ============ Lam 3:19 Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness. (nasb) Lam 3:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.(kjv) Lam 3:19 Remember my affliction and roaming, The wormwood and the gall.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:20 ============ Lam 3:20 Surely my soul remembers And is bowed down within me. (nasb) Lam 3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.(kjv) Lam 3:20 My soul still remembers And sinks within me.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:21 ============ Lam 3:21 This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. (nasb) Lam 3:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.(kjv) Lam 3:21 This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:22 ============ Lam 3:22 The Lord's lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. (nasb) Lam 3:22 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.(kjv) Lam 3:22 Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:23 ============ Lam 3:23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. (nasb) Lam 3:23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.(kjv) Lam 3:23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:24 ============ Lam 3:24 "The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I have hope in Him."(nasb) Lam 3:24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.(kjv) Lam 3:24 "The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I hope in Him!"(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:25 ============ Lam 3:25 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the person who seeks Him. (nasb) Lam 3:25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.(kjv) Lam 3:25 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:26 ============ Lam 3:26 It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the Lord. (nasb) Lam 3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.(kjv) Lam 3:26 It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the Lord.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:27 ============ Lam 3:27 It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke in his youth. (nasb) Lam 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.(kjv) Lam 3:27 It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:28 ============ Lam 3:28 Let him sit alone and be silent Since He has laid it on him. (nasb) Lam 3:28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.(kjv) Lam 3:28 Let him sit alone and keep silent, Because God has laid it on him;(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:29 ============ Lam 3:29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, Perhaps there is hope. (nasb) Lam 3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.(kjv) Lam 3:29 Let him put his mouth in the dust-- There may yet be hope.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:30 ============ Lam 3:30 Let him give his cheek to the smiter, Let him be filled with reproach. (nasb) Lam 3:30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.(kjv) Lam 3:30 Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, And be full of reproach.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:31 ============ Lam 3:31 For the Lord will not reject forever, (nasb) Lam 3:31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:(kjv) Lam 3:31 For the Lord will not cast off forever.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:32 ============ Lam 3:32 For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness. (nasb) Lam 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.(kjv) Lam 3:32 Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His mercies.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:33 ============ Lam 3:33 For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of men. (nasb) Lam 3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.(kjv) Lam 3:33 For He does not afflict willingly, Nor grieve the children of men.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:34 ============ Lam 3:34 To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land, (nasb) Lam 3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.(kjv) Lam 3:34 To crush under one's feet All the prisoners of the earth,(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:35 ============ Lam 3:35 To deprive a man of justice In the presence of the Most High, (nasb) Lam 3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,(kjv) Lam 3:35 To turn aside the justice due a man Before the face of the Most High,(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:36 ============ Lam 3:36 To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve. (nasb) Lam 3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.(kjv) Lam 3:36 Or subvert a man in his cause-- The Lord does not approve.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:37 ============ Lam 3:37 Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it? (nasb) Lam 3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?(kjv) Lam 3:37 Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass, When the Lord has not commanded it?(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:38 ============ Lam 3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both good and ill go forth? (nasb) Lam 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?(kjv) Lam 3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That woe and well-being proceed?(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:39 ============ Lam 3:39 Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer complaint in view of his sins? (nasb) Lam 3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?(kjv) Lam 3:39 Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:40 ============ Lam 3:40 Let us examine and probe our ways, And let us return to the Lord. (nasb) Lam 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.(kjv) Lam 3:40 Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord;(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:41 ============ Lam 3:41 We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven; (nasb) Lam 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.(kjv) Lam 3:41 Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:42 ============ Lam 3:42 We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned. (nasb) Lam 3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.(kjv) Lam 3:42 We have transgressed and rebelled; You have not pardoned.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:43 ============ Lam 3:43 You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and have not spared. (nasb) Lam 3:43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.(kjv) Lam 3:43 You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:44 ============ Lam 3:44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through. (nasb) Lam 3:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.(kjv) Lam 3:44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:45 ============ Lam 3:45 You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples. (nasb) Lam 3:45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.(kjv) Lam 3:45 You have made us an offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:46 ============ Lam 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. (nasb) Lam 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.(kjv) Lam 3:46 All our enemies Have opened their mouths against us.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:47 ============ Lam 3:47 Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction; (nasb) Lam 3:47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.(kjv) Lam 3:47 Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:48 ============ Lam 3:48 My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. (nasb) Lam 3:48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.(kjv) Lam 3:48 My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:49 ============ Lam 3:49 My eyes pour down unceasingly, Without stopping, (nasb) Lam 3:49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.(kjv) Lam 3:49 My eyes flow and do not cease, Without interruption,(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:50 ============ Lam 3:50 Until the Lord looks down And sees from heaven. (nasb) Lam 3:50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.(kjv) Lam 3:50 Till the Lord from heaven Looks down and sees.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:51 ============ Lam 3:51 My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city. (nasb) Lam 3:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.(kjv) Lam 3:51 My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:52 ============ Lam 3:52 My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird; (nasb) Lam 3:52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.(kjv) Lam 3:52 My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:53 ============ Lam 3:53 They have silenced me in the pit And have placed a stone on me. (nasb) Lam 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.(kjv) Lam 3:53 They silenced my life in the pit And threw stones at me.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:54 ============ Lam 3:54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"(nasb) Lam 3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.(kjv) Lam 3:54 The waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:55 ============ Lam 3:55 I called on Your name, O Lord, Out of the lowest pit. (nasb) Lam 3:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.(kjv) Lam 3:55 I called on Your name, O Lord, From the lowest pit.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:56 ============ Lam 3:56 You have heard my voice, "Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help."(nasb) Lam 3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.(kjv) Lam 3:56 You have heard my voice: "Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help."(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:57 ============ Lam 3:57 You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not fear!"(nasb) Lam 3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.(kjv) Lam 3:57 You drew near on the day I called on You, And said, "Do not fear!"(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:58 ============ Lam 3:58 O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life. (nasb) Lam 3:58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.(kjv) Lam 3:58 O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul; You have redeemed my life.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:59 ============ Lam 3:59 O Lord, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case. (nasb) Lam 3:59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.(kjv) Lam 3:59 O Lord, You have seen how I am wronged; Judge my case.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:60 ============ Lam 3:60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me. (nasb) Lam 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.(kjv) Lam 3:60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:61 ============ Lam 3:61 You have heard their reproach, O Lord, All their schemes against me. (nasb) Lam 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;(kjv) Lam 3:61 You have heard their reproach, O Lord, All their schemes against me,(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:62 ============ Lam 3:62 The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long. (nasb) Lam 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.(kjv) Lam 3:62 The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:63 ============ Lam 3:63 Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song. (nasb) Lam 3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.(kjv) Lam 3:63 Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:64 ============ Lam 3:64 You will recompense them, O Lord, According to the work of their hands. (nasb) Lam 3:64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.(kjv) Lam 3:64 Repay them, O Lord, According to the work of their hands.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:65 ============ Lam 3:65 You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them. (nasb) Lam 3:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.(kjv) Lam 3:65 Give them a veiled heart; Your curse be upon them!(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 3:66 ============ Lam 3:66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord! (nasb) Lam 3:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.(kjv) Lam 3:66 In Your anger, Pursue and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord.(nkjv) ======= Lamentations 4:1 ============ Lam 4:1 How dark the gold has become, How the pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are poured out At the corner of every street. (nasb) Lam 4:1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.(kjv) Lam 4:1 How the gold has become dim! How changed the fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary are scattered At the head of every street.(nkjv) |
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