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Scripture Context
Lamentations 3:0 - Lamentations 3:10
Lamentations 3
Intro: Calamities bewailed -- God's justice and mercy -- Prayer fordeliverance.
1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out; he hath made my chain heavy.
8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.