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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "lamentations",
    "chapter": 3
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 3,
    "bookSlug": "lamentations",
    "bookCode": "LAM",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "LAM-3:1",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.1",
        "text": "I am the man who has seen affliction\nby the rod of his wrath."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "LAM-3:2",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.2",
        "text": "He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,\nand not in light."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "LAM-3:3",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.3",
        "text": "Surely he turns his hand against me\nagain and again all day long."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "LAM-3:4",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.4",
        "text": "He has made my flesh and my skin old.\nHe has broken my bones."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "LAM-3:5",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.5",
        "text": "He has built against me,\nand surrounded me with bitterness and hardship."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "LAM-3:6",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.6",
        "text": "He has made me dwell in dark places,\nas those who have been long dead."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "LAM-3:7",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.7",
        "text": "He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.\nHe has made my chain heavy."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "LAM-3:8",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.8",
        "text": "Yes, when I cry, and call for help,\nhe shuts out my prayer."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "LAM-3:9",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.9",
        "text": "He has walled up my ways with cut stone.\nHe has made my paths crooked."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "LAM-3:10",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.10",
        "text": "He is to me as a bear lying in wait,\nas a lion in secret places."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "LAM-3:11",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.11",
        "text": "He has turned away my ways,\nand pulled me in pieces.\nHe has made me desolate."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "LAM-3:12",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.12",
        "text": "He has bent his bow,\nand set me as a mark for the arrow."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "LAM-3:13",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.13",
        "text": "He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "LAM-3:14",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.14",
        "text": "I have become a derision to all my people,\nand their song all day long."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "LAM-3:15",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.15",
        "text": "He has filled me with bitterness.\nHe has stuffed me with wormwood."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "LAM-3:16",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.16",
        "text": "He has also broken my teeth with gravel.\nHe has covered me with ashes."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "LAM-3:17",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.17",
        "text": "You have removed my soul far away from peace.\nI forgot prosperity."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "LAM-3:18",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.18",
        "text": "I said, “My strength has perished,\nalong with my expectation from Yahweh.”"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "LAM-3:19",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.19",
        "text": "Remember my affliction and my misery,\nthe wormwood and the bitterness."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "LAM-3:20",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.20",
        "text": "My soul still remembers them,\nand is bowed down within me."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "LAM-3:21",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.21",
        "text": "This I recall to my mind;\ntherefore I have hope."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "LAM-3:22",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.22",
        "text": "It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,\nbecause his compassion doesn’t fail."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "LAM-3:23",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.23",
        "text": "They are new every morning.\nGreat is your faithfulness."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "LAM-3:24",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.24",
        "text": "“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.\n“Therefore I will hope in him.”"
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "LAM-3:25",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.25",
        "text": "Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,\nto the soul who seeks him."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "LAM-3:26",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.26",
        "text": "It is good that a man should hope\nand quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "LAM-3:27",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.27",
        "text": "It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "LAM-3:28",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.28",
        "text": "Let him sit alone and keep silence,\nbecause he has laid it on him."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "LAM-3:29",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.29",
        "text": "Let him put his mouth in the dust,\nif it is so that there may be hope."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "LAM-3:30",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.30",
        "text": "Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.\nLet him be filled full of reproach."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "LAM-3:31",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.31",
        "text": "For the Lord will not cast off forever."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "LAM-3:32",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.32",
        "text": "For though he causes grief,\nyet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "LAM-3:33",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.33",
        "text": "For he does not afflict willingly,\nnor grieve the children of men."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "LAM-3:34",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.34",
        "text": "To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,"
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "LAM-3:35",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.35",
        "text": "to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,"
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "LAM-3:36",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.36",
        "text": "to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "LAM-3:37",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.37",
        "text": "Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,\nwhen the Lord doesn’t command it?"
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "LAM-3:38",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.38",
        "text": "Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?"
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "LAM-3:39",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.39",
        "text": "Why does a living man complain,\na man for the punishment of his sins?"
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "LAM-3:40",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.40",
        "text": "Let us search and try our ways,\nand turn again to Yahweh."
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "LAM-3:41",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.41",
        "text": "Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens."
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "LAM-3:42",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.42",
        "text": "“We have transgressed and have rebelled.\nYou have not pardoned."
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "LAM-3:43",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.43",
        "text": "“You have covered us with anger and pursued us.\nYou have killed.\nYou have not pitied."
      },{
        "n": 44,
        "refId": "LAM-3:44",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.44",
        "text": "You have covered yourself with a cloud,\nso that no prayer can pass through."
      },{
        "n": 45,
        "refId": "LAM-3:45",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.45",
        "text": "You have made us an off-scouring and refuse\nin the middle of the peoples."
      },{
        "n": 46,
        "refId": "LAM-3:46",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.46",
        "text": "“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us."
      },{
        "n": 47,
        "refId": "LAM-3:47",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.47",
        "text": "Terror and the pit have come on us,\ndevastation and destruction.”"
      },{
        "n": 48,
        "refId": "LAM-3:48",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.48",
        "text": "My eye runs down with streams of water,\nfor the destruction of the daughter of my people."
      },{
        "n": 49,
        "refId": "LAM-3:49",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.49",
        "text": "My eye pours down\nand doesn’t cease,\nwithout any intermission,"
      },{
        "n": 50,
        "refId": "LAM-3:50",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.50",
        "text": "until Yahweh looks down,\nand sees from heaven."
      },{
        "n": 51,
        "refId": "LAM-3:51",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.51",
        "text": "My eye affects my soul,\nbecause of all the daughters of my city."
      },{
        "n": 52,
        "refId": "LAM-3:52",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.52",
        "text": "They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,\nthose who are my enemies without cause."
      },{
        "n": 53,
        "refId": "LAM-3:53",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.53",
        "text": "They have cut off my life in the dungeon,\nand have cast a stone on me."
      },{
        "n": 54,
        "refId": "LAM-3:54",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.54",
        "text": "Waters flowed over my head.\nI said, “I am cut off.”"
      },{
        "n": 55,
        "refId": "LAM-3:55",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.55",
        "text": "I called on your name, Yahweh,\nout of the lowest dungeon."
      },{
        "n": 56,
        "refId": "LAM-3:56",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.56",
        "text": "You heard my voice:\n“Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,\nand my cry.”"
      },{
        "n": 57,
        "refId": "LAM-3:57",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.57",
        "text": "You came near in the day that I called on you.\nYou said, “Don’t be afraid.”"
      },{
        "n": 58,
        "refId": "LAM-3:58",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.58",
        "text": "Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.\nYou have redeemed my life."
      },{
        "n": 59,
        "refId": "LAM-3:59",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.59",
        "text": "Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.\nJudge my cause."
      },{
        "n": 60,
        "refId": "LAM-3:60",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.60",
        "text": "You have seen all their vengeance\nand all their plans against me."
      },{
        "n": 61,
        "refId": "LAM-3:61",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.61",
        "text": "You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,\nand all their plans against me,"
      },{
        "n": 62,
        "refId": "LAM-3:62",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.62",
        "text": "the lips of those that rose up against me,\nand their plots against me all day long."
      },{
        "n": 63,
        "refId": "LAM-3:63",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.63",
        "text": "You see their sitting down and their rising up.\nI am their song."
      },{
        "n": 64,
        "refId": "LAM-3:64",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.64",
        "text": "You will pay them back, Yahweh,\naccording to the work of their hands."
      },{
        "n": 65,
        "refId": "LAM-3:65",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.65",
        "text": "You will give them hardness of heart,\nyour curse to them."
      },{
        "n": 66,
        "refId": "LAM-3:66",
        "verseRef": "LAM.3.66",
        "text": "You will pursue them in anger,\nand destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh."
      }
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