25:003:011 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
25:003:012 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
25:003:013 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
25:003:014 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
25:003:015 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
25:003:016 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
25:003:017 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
25:003:018 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
25:003:019 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
25:003:020 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
25:003:021 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
25:003:022 It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
25:003:023 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
25:003:024 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25:003:025 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
25:003:026 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
25:003:027 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
25:003:028 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
25:003:029 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
25:003:030 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
25:003:031 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
25:003:032 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
25:003:033 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
25:003:034 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
25:003:035 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
25:003:036 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
25:003:037 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
25:003:038 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
The Bible, King James Version, Book 25: Lamentations · The Wunder Library — complete classics, free to read, with narration.