Jeremiah Shares Israel's Affliction and Prays for Deliverance
Lamentations
1 The prophet bewails his own calamities, 22 By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope, 37 He acknowledges God's justice, 55 He prays for deliverance, 64 And vengeance on his enemies
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.
Psa 88:56 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.
9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Hos 5:1410 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Hos 6:111 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Jer 20:7;Mat 27:29-31;Neh 4:2-4 14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Jer 9:1515 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Pro 20:1716 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
Psa 31:2218 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:
19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 ¶ This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
Neh 9:31;Psa 57:10;Mal 3:6 22 It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Isa 33:223 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Psa 16:524 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Psa 130:625 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Psa 37:726 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Psa 94:1227 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Jer 15:1728 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
Job 42:629 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Psa 94:1431 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Heb 12:1033 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Hab 1:1336 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
Psa 33:937 ¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Mic 7:939 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Psa 119:5940 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
Psa 86:441 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Dan 9:642 ¶ We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
1 Cor 4:1345 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Psa 119:13648 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Isa 63:1550 Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
Psa 69:254 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Jon 2:2;Psa 18:5-6;2 Chr 33:12 55 ¶ I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.
Psa 69:18;Isa 58:9;Jam 4:8 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Psa 71:23;Jer 51:36;Psa 35:1 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Jer 11:1960 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Psa 139:263 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Psa 28:4;Jer 11:20;2 Tim 4:14 64 Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
Psa 8:366 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.