Lamentations 3, sung word for word in more than 20 music styles, with the words on screen. Free. Choose a style and a voice to play it.
1 -I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
2 -He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
3 -Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
4 -He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.
5 -He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 -He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
7 -He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
8 -Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9 -He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
10 -He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
11 -He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
12 -He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
13 -He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
14 -I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15 -He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
16 -He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
17 -My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 -So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
19 -Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
20 -Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
21 -Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
22 -Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
23 -They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
24 -“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
25 -The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
26 -It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
27 -It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
28 -Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.
29 -Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
30 -Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
31 -For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
32 -Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.
33 -For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.
34 -To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
35 -to deny a man justice before the Most High,
36 -to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.
37 -Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
38 -Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
39 -Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
40 -Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
41 -Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
42 -“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
43 -You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
44 -You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
45 -You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46 -All our enemies open their mouths against us.
47 -Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.
48 -Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 -My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
50 -until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 -My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
52 -Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
53 -They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
54 -The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
55 -I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
56 -You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
57 -You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”
58 -You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
59 -You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
60 -You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
61 -O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
62 -the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
63 -When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
64 -You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 -Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!
66 -You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
(Berean Standard Bible)
