August 29: Lamentations 3–5

Lamentations 3–5 Lamentations 3–5 (Listen) Great Is Your Faithfulness 3   I am the man who has seen affliction<br />    under the rod of his wrath;<br />2   he has driven and brought me<br />    into darkness without any light;<br />3   surely against me he turns his hand<br />    again and again the whole day long.<br /> 4   He has made my flesh and my skin waste away;<br />    he has broken my bones;<br />5   he has besieged and enveloped me<br />    with bitterness and tribulation;<br />6   he has made me dwell in darkness<br />    like the dead of long ago.<br /> 7   He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;<br />    he has made my chains heavy;<br />8   though I call and cry for help,<br />    he shuts out my prayer;<br />9   he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;<br />    he has made my paths crooked.<br /> 10   He is a bear lying in wait for me,<br />    a lion in hiding;<br />