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Lamentations 3:1-24
1I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;
2he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;
3surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.
4He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;
5he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;
6he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.
7He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;
8though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;
9he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
10He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;
11he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;
12he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.
13He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
14I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.
15He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.
16He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
17my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;
18so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord.”
19Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
20My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.
21But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:
22The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;
23they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
24“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”