| Book Name | Chapter | Verse | Text | Trans Abbrev |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamentations | 3 | 1 | I am the one who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod of the LORD's anger. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 2 | He has brought me into deep darkness, shutting out all light. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 3 | He has turned against me. Day and night his hand is heavy upon me. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 4 | He has made my skin and flesh grow old. He has broken my bones. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 5 | He has attacked me and surrounded me with anguish and distress. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 6 | He has buried me in a dark place, like a person long dead. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 7 | He has walled me in, and I cannot escape. He has bound me in heavy chains. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 8 | And though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayers. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 9 | He has blocked my path with a high stone wall. He has twisted the road before me with many detours. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 10 | He hid like a bear or a lion, waiting to attack me. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 11 | He dragged me off the path and tore me with his claws, leaving me helpless and desolate. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 12 | He bent his bow and aimed it squarely at me. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 13 | He shot his arrows deep into my heart. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 14 | My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 15 | He has filled me with bitterness. He has given me a cup of deep sorrow to drink. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 16 | He has made me grind my teeth on gravel. He has rolled me in the dust. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 17 | Peace has been stripped away, and I have forgotten what prosperity is. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 18 | I cry out, "My splendor is gone! Everything I had hoped for from the LORD is lost!" | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 19 | The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 20 | I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 21 | Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 22 | The unfailing love of the LORD never ends! By his mercies we have been kept from complete destruction. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 23 | Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each day. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 24 | I say to myself, "The LORD is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!" | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 25 | The LORD is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 26 | So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the LORD. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 27 | And it is good for the young to submit to the yoke of his discipline. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 28 | Let them sit alone in silence beneath the LORD's demands. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 29 | Let them lie face down in the dust; then at last there is hope for them. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 30 | Let them turn the other cheek to those who strike them. Let them accept the insults of their enemies. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 31 | For the Lord does not abandon anyone forever. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 32 | Though he brings grief, he also shows compassion according to the greatness of his unfailing love. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 33 | For he does not enjoy hurting people or causing them sorrow. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 34 | But the leaders of his people trampled prisoners underfoot. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 35 | They deprived people of their God-given rights in defiance of the Most High. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 36 | They perverted justice in the courts. Do they think the Lord didn't see it? | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 37 | Can anything happen without the Lord's permission? | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 38 | Is it not the Most High who helps one and harms another? | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 39 | Then why should we, mere humans, complain when we are punished for our sins? | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 40 | Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn again in repentance to the LORD. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 41 | Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven and say, | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 42 | "We have sinned and rebelled, and you have not forgiven us. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 43 | "You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down, and slaughtered us without mercy. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 44 | You have hidden yourself in a cloud so our prayers cannot reach you. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 45 | You have discarded us as refuse and garbage among the nations. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 46 | "All our enemies have spoken out against us. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 47 | We are filled with fear, for we are trapped, desolate, and ruined." | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 48 | Streams of tears flow from my eyes because of the destruction of my people! | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 49 | My tears flow down endlessly. They will not stop | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 50 | until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 51 | My heart is breaking over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 52 | My enemies, whom I have never harmed, chased me like a bird. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 53 | They threw me into a pit and dropped stones on me. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 54 | The water flowed above my head, and I cried out, "This is the end!" | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 55 | But I called on your name, LORD, from deep within the well, | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 56 | and you heard me! You listened to my pleading; you heard my weeping! | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 57 | Yes, you came at my despairing cry and told me, "Do not fear." | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 58 | Lord, you are my lawyer! Plead my case! For you have redeemed my life. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 59 | You have seen the wrong they have done to me, LORD. Be my judge, and prove me right. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 60 | You have seen the plots my enemies have laid against me. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 61 | LORD, you have heard the vile names they call me. You know all about the plans they have made-- | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 62 | the plots my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 63 | Look at them! In all their activities, they constantly mock me with their songs. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 64 | Pay them back, LORD, for all the evil they have done. | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 65 | Give them hard and stubborn hearts, and then let your curse fall upon them! | NLT |
| Lamentations | 3 | 66 | Chase them down in your anger, destroying them from beneath the LORD's heavens. | NLT |