Lamentations 3

King James Version · 66 verses · 1,088 cross-references linking it to 456 other chapters

1. 1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.15 cross-references: Psalms 88:7, Job 19:21, Psalms 88:15–16, Psalms 71:20, Jeremiah 38:6
2. 2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.17 cross-references: Job 30:26, Isaiah 59:9, Amos 5:18–20, Deuteronomy 28:29, Jeremiah 13:16
3. 3Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.12 cross-references: Isaiah 5:25, Deuteronomy 29:20, Job 31:21, Isaiah 63:10, Isaiah 1:25
4. 4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.15 cross-references: Isaiah 38:13, Psalms 51:8, Jeremiah 50:17, Psalms 38:2–8, Psalms 102:3–5
5. 5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.12 cross-references: Lamentations 3:19, Jeremiah 23:15, Job 19:8, Jeremiah 9:15, Psalms 69:21
6. 6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.7 cross-references: Psalms 143:3, Psalms 88:5–6, Psalms 143:7
7. 7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.18 cross-references: Job 3:23, Job 19:8, Psalms 88:8, Jeremiah 40:4, Jeremiah 38:6
8. 8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.24 cross-references: Job 30:20, Psalms 22:2, Job 19:7, Matthew 27:46, Habakkuk 1:2
9. 9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.8 cross-references: Isaiah 63:17, Lamentations 3:11, Hosea 2:6, Isaiah 30:28
10. 10He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.13 cross-references: Hosea 6:1, Amos 5:18–20, Psalms 10:9, Hosea 13:7–8, Hosea 5:14
11. 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.20 cross-references: Hosea 6:1, Job 16:12–13, Lamentations 1:13, Micah 5:8, Daniel 7:23
12. 12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.15 cross-references: Psalms 38:2, Job 7:20, Psalms 7:12–13, Lamentations 2:4, Job 6:4
13. 13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.8 cross-references: Job 6:4, Deuteronomy 32:23, Job 41:28
14. 14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.19 cross-references: Jeremiah 20:7, Lamentations 3:63, Psalms 22:6–7, Psalms 69:11–12, Psalms 123:3–4
15. 15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.22 cross-references: Jeremiah 9:15, Isaiah 51:17–22, Lamentations 3:19, Jeremiah 25:27, Psalms 60:3
16. 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.11 cross-references: Proverbs 20:17, Jeremiah 6:26, Psalms 58:6, Psalms 3:7, Job 2:8
17. 17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.15 cross-references: Isaiah 59:11, Psalms 119:155, Lamentations 1:16, Isaiah 54:10, Jeremiah 8:15
18. 18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:15 cross-references: Job 17:15, 1 Samuel 27:1, Job 6:11, Psalms 31:22, Psalms 116:11
19. 19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.21 cross-references: Lamentations 3:15, Lamentations 3:5, Nehemiah 9:32, Jeremiah 9:15, Psalms 89:50
20. 20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.8 cross-references: Psalms 42:11, Psalms 42:5–6, Job 21:6, Psalms 43:5, Psalms 44:25
21. 21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.14 cross-references: Habakkuk 2:3, Psalms 130:7, Psalms 77:7–11, Psalms 119:81, Lamentations 3:24–29
22. 22It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.41 cross-references: Psalms 86:15, Luke 1:50, Nehemiah 9:31, Micah 7:18–19, Malachi 3:6
23. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.22 cross-references: Hebrews 10:23, Psalms 30:5, Isaiah 33:2, Psalms 89:33, Psalms 36:5
24. 24The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.36 cross-references: Psalms 73:26, Psalms 16:5, Psalms 142:5, Lamentations 3:21, Psalms 33:18
25. 25The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.69 cross-references: Micah 7:7–8, Isaiah 40:31, Psalms 130:5–6, Psalms 37:34, Psalms 40:1–5
26. 26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.38 cross-references: Psalms 37:7, Psalms 37:34, Psalms 130:5, Genesis 49:18, Hebrews 10:35
27. 27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.12 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 12:1, Matthew 11:29–30, Psalms 119:71, Psalms 94:12, Psalms 90:12
28. 28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.8 cross-references: Jeremiah 15:17, Lamentations 2:10, Psalms 102:7, Psalms 39:9
29. 29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.16 cross-references: Job 40:4, Luke 18:13, Job 42:5–6, Jeremiah 31:17, Luke 15:18–19
30. 30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.22 cross-references: Isaiah 50:6, Job 16:10, Matthew 5:39, Matthew 26:67, 2 Corinthians 11:20
31. 31For the Lord will not cast off for ever:24 cross-references: Psalms 94:14, Psalms 77:7, Psalms 103:8–10, Isaiah 54:7–10, 1 Samuel 12:22
32. 32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.35 cross-references: Psalms 78:38, Psalms 30:5, Psalms 103:11, Hosea 11:8, Judges 10:16
33. 33For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.11 cross-references: Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 18:32, Hebrews 12:9–10, Isaiah 28:21
34. 34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,15 cross-references: Zechariah 9:11–12, Isaiah 51:22–23, Psalms 102:20, Isaiah 49:9, Jeremiah 51:33–36
35. 35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
36. 36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.4 cross-references: Habakkuk 1:13, Isaiah 59:15, Jeremiah 22:3, 2 Samuel 11:27
37. 37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?41 cross-references: Psalms 33:9–11, Isaiah 46:10, Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 19:21, Proverbs 21:30
38. 38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?15 cross-references: Isaiah 45:7, Amos 3:6, Job 2:10, Jeremiah 32:42, Psalms 75:7
39. 39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?48 cross-references: Proverbs 19:3, Micah 7:9, Jeremiah 30:15, Jonah 4:8–9, 2 Kings 6:32
40. 40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.43 cross-references: 2 Corinthians 13:5, Psalms 139:23–24, Joel 2:12–13, Psalms 4:4, Psalms 119:59
41. 41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.11 cross-references: Psalms 25:1, Psalms 28:2, Psalms 143:6–8, Psalms 86:4, Psalms 141:2
42. 42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.18 cross-references: Nehemiah 9:26, Lamentations 5:16, Lamentations 1:18, Jeremiah 3:13, Jeremiah 5:7–9
43. 43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.14 cross-references: Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 2:21, Psalms 83:15, Lamentations 3:66, Lamentations 2:1–2
44. 44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.14 cross-references: Lamentations 3:8, Zechariah 7:13, Psalms 97:2, Jeremiah 15:1, Jeremiah 14:11
45. 45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.10 cross-references: 1 Corinthians 4:13, Deuteronomy 28:44, Deuteronomy 28:13, Deuteronomy 28:37, Lamentations 2:15
46. 46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.11 cross-references: Lamentations 2:16, Psalms 22:6–8, Matthew 27:38–45, Psalms 79:4, Exodus 11:7
47. 47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.11 cross-references: Isaiah 51:19, Isaiah 24:17–18, Jeremiah 48:43–44, Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:13
48. 48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.24 cross-references: Lamentations 2:11, Jeremiah 9:1, Lamentations 2:18, Jeremiah 13:17, Jeremiah 9:18
49. 49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,4 cross-references: Jeremiah 14:17, Psalms 77:2, Lamentations 1:16
50. 50Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.14 cross-references: Isaiah 63:15, Lamentations 5:1, Psalms 102:19–20, Isaiah 62:6–7, Lamentations 2:20
51. 51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.14 cross-references: Luke 19:41–44, Lamentations 1:18, Jeremiah 4:19–21, Jeremiah 14:18, Jeremiah 11:22
52. 52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.20 cross-references: Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:19, Jeremiah 37:18, Jeremiah 37:15–16, John 15:25
53. 53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.19 cross-references: Jeremiah 38:9, Daniel 6:17, Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 37:16, Jeremiah 37:20
54. 54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.22 cross-references: Jonah 2:3–5, Ezekiel 37:11, 2 Corinthians 1:8–10, Psalms 18:4, Lamentations 3:18
55. 55I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.19 cross-references: Acts 16:24–28, Psalms 18:5–6, Jonah 2:2–4, Psalms 130:1–2, Psalms 116:3–4
56. 56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.12 cross-references: Job 34:28, Psalms 55:1, Psalms 34:6, Psalms 6:8–9, Isaiah 38:5
57. 57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.12 cross-references: Isaiah 41:10, James 4:8, Isaiah 58:9, Revelation 2:10, Isaiah 41:14
58. 58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.10 cross-references: Psalms 34:22 – Psalms 35:1, Jeremiah 51:36, Jeremiah 50:34, Psalms 103:4, Psalms 71:23
59. 59O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.14 cross-references: Psalms 43:1, 1 Peter 2:23, Psalms 35:1, Genesis 31:42, Psalms 9:4
60. 60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.3 cross-references: Jeremiah 11:19–20, Lamentations 3:59, Psalms 10:14
61. 61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;8 cross-references: Lamentations 5:1, Zephaniah 2:8, Psalms 74:18, Psalms 89:50, Lamentations 3:30
62. 62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.5 cross-references: Ezekiel 36:3, Psalms 140:3, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 59:7, Jeremiah 18:18
63. 63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.5 cross-references: Psalms 139:2, Lamentations 3:14, Job 30:9
64. 64Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.6 cross-references: Psalms 28:4, Jeremiah 11:20, 2 Timothy 4:14, Jeremiah 50:29, Revelation 6:10
65. 65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.7 cross-references: Isaiah 6:10, Deuteronomy 2:30, 1 Corinthians 16:22, Deuteronomy 27:15–26, Psalms 109:17–18
66. 66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.16 cross-references: Psalms 8:3, Jeremiah 10:11, Lamentations 3:43, Deuteronomy 25:19, Psalms 115:16

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