Chronological Plan
Read the Bible in the order that the events happened.
Today, we are reading Lamentations 3:37-66; Lamentations 4; Lamentations 5:1-22.
| 37 | Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
| 38 | Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? |
| 39 | Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? |
| 40 | Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD. |
| 41 | Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. |
| 42 | 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. |
| 45 | 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. |
| 48 | 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, |
| 50 | Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven. |
| 51 | Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52 | Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. |
| 53 | They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. |
| 54 | Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. |
| 55 | I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. |
| 56 | Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. |
| 57 | Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. |
| 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. |
| 60 | 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. |
| 63 | Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. |
| 64 | Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. |
| 65 | Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. |
| 66 | Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. |
| 1 | How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. |
| 2 | The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! |
| 3 | Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. |
| 4 | The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. |
| 5 | They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. |
| 6 | For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. |
| 7 | Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: |
| 8 | Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. |
| 9 | They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. |
| 10 | The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 11 | The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. |
| 12 | The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. |
| 13 | For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, |
| 14 | They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. |
| 15 | They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. |
| 16 | The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders. |
| 17 | As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. |
| 18 | They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. |
| 19 | Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. |
| 20 | The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. |
| 21 | Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. |
| 22 | The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. |
| 1 | Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. |
| 2 | Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. |
| 3 | We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
| 4 | We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. |
| 5 | Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest. |
| 6 | We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
| 7 | Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. |
| 8 | Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. |
| 9 | We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. |
| 10 | Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. |
| 11 | They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. |
| 12 | Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored. |
| 13 | They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. |
| 14 | The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music. |
| 15 | The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. |
| 16 | The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! |
| 17 | For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. |
| 18 | Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. |
| 19 | Thou, O LORD, remainest forever; thy throne from generation to generation. |
| 20 | Wherefore dost thou forget us forever, and forsake us so long time? |
| 21 | Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. |
| 22 | But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. |
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