THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Lamentations Chapter 1 to 5)

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:17 (NLT)
Peace has been stripped away,
and I have forgotten what prosperity is.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:18 (NLT)
I cry out, "My splendor is gone!
Everything I had hoped for from the LORD is lost!"

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:19 (NLT)
The thought of my suffering and homelessness
is bitter beyond words.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:20 (NLT)
I will never forget this awful time,
as I grieve over my loss.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:21 (NLT)
Yet I still dare to hope
When I remember this:

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:22 (NLT)
The faithful love of the LORD never ends!
His mercies never cease.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:23 (NLT)
Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:24 (NLT)
I say to myself, "The LORD is my inherirace;
therefore I will hope in him!"

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:25 (NLT)
The LORD is good to those who depend on him,
to those who search for him.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:26 (NLT)
So it is good to wait quietly,
for salvation from the LORD.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:27 (NLT)
And it's good for people to submit at an early age
to the yoke of his discipline:

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:28 (NLT)
Let them sit alone in silence
beneath the LORD's demands.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:29 (NLT)
Let them lie down in the dust,
For there may be hope at last.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:30 (NLT)
Let them turn the other cheek to them who strike them
and accept the insults of their enemies.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:31 (NLT)
For no one is abandoned
By the Lord for ever.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:32 (NLT)
Though he brings grief, he also shows compassionately
because of the greatness of his unfailing love.

 

[Cosia]

Lamentations 3:33 (NLT)
For he does not enjoy hurting people
or causing them sorrow.

 

[crossnote]

(Lam 3:34) To crush under one's feet All the prisoners of the earth,

 

[Pastor Gary]

Lamentations 3:35 (NLT) - 35 if they deprive others of their rights in defiance of the Most High,

 

[Pastor Gary]

Lamentations 3:36 (NLT) - 36 if they twist justice in the courts—doesn’t the Lord see all these things?