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Lamentations Outline

      • Jeremiah expresses his feelings and hope

        • “I will show a waiting attitude” (21)

        • God’s mercies new every morning (22, 23)

        • God is good to those hoping in him (25)

        • Good for youths to carry the yoke (27)

        • God blocked approach to himself by a cloud (43, 44)

Lamentations 3:1

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 10

    9/1/1988, p. 27

    2/15/1987, p. 22

  • Publications Index

    w07 6/1 10; w88 9/1 27; w87 2/15 22

Lamentations 3:2

Marginal References

  • +De 28:15, 29; Jer 13:16

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w35 263

Lamentations 3:3

Marginal References

  • +Isa 63:10

Lamentations 3:5

Marginal References

  • +Jer 8:14; 9:15; La 3:19

Lamentations 3:7

Marginal References

  • +Jer 39:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    ‘Know Jehovah’, pp. 136-138

  • Publications Index

    kj 137

Lamentations 3:8

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “hinders; shuts out.”

Marginal References

  • +Ps 80:4; 102:2; Isa 1:15; Mic 3:4

Lamentations 3:9

Marginal References

  • +Isa 63:17

Lamentations 3:10

Marginal References

  • +Job 38:39, 40; Ho 5:14; Am 5:18, 19

Lamentations 3:11

Footnotes

  • *

    Or possibly, “makes me lie fallow.”

Marginal References

  • +Jer 6:8; 32:43

Lamentations 3:12

Footnotes

  • *

    Lit., “trodden.”

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/1977, p. 663

  • Publications Index

    w77 663

Lamentations 3:13

Footnotes

  • *

    Lit., “sons.”

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/1977, p. 663

    4/1/1965, p. 219

  • Publications Index

    w77 663; w65 219

Lamentations 3:15

Marginal References

  • +Jer 9:15; 23:15

Lamentations 3:16

Marginal References

  • +Ps 102:9; Jer 6:26

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 995

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 10

    9/1/1988, p. 27

    Awake!,

    9/8/1976, p. 26

  • Publications Index

    it-1 995; w07 6/1 10; w88 9/1 27;

    g76 9/8 26; ad 682

Lamentations 3:17

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “my soul.”

Lamentations 3:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/1988, p. 27

  • Publications Index

    w88 9/1 27

Lamentations 3:19

Marginal References

  • +Ne 9:32; Ps 137:1
  • +Jer 9:15; La 3:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    7/15/1977, p. 444

  • Publications Index

    w77 444

Lamentations 3:20

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “Your soul.”

Marginal References

  • +Ps 113:5-7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Close to Jehovah, p. 199

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2012, p. 14

    6/1/2007, p. 11

    2/15/1987, p. 22

    10/15/1978, p. 22

    9/15/1977, p. 575

    7/15/1977, p. 444

  • Publications Index

    cl 199; w12 6/1 14; w07 6/1 11; w87 2/15 22;

    w78 10/15 22; w77 444; w77 575

Lamentations 3:21

Marginal References

  • +Ps 130:6-8; Mic 7:7

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2012, p. 14

    2/15/1987, p. 22

    10/15/1978, p. 22

  • Publications Index

    w12 6/1 14; w87 2/15 22;

    w78 10/15 22

Lamentations 3:22

Marginal References

  • +Ezr 9:8
  • +Ne 9:31; Jer 30:11; Mic 7:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Jeremiah, pp. 122-123

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 22-23

    10/15/1978, p. 22

    2/15/1963, pp. 109-111

    8/1/1959, pp. 477-479

  • Publications Index

    jr 122-123; w87 2/15 22-23;

    w78 10/15 22; g64 7/8 28; w63 110; w59 478

Lamentations 3:23

Marginal References

  • +Ps 30:5
  • +De 32:4; Ps 36:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 22-23

    10/15/1978, p. 22

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 22-23;

    w78 10/15 22

Lamentations 3:24

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “my soul says.”

Marginal References

  • +Ps 16:5; 73:26; 142:5
  • +Ps 130:6-8

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    9/15/2011, pp. 8-10

    2/15/1987, pp. 22-23

  • Publications Index

    w11 9/15 8-10; w87 2/15 22-23

Lamentations 3:25

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “soul.”

Marginal References

  • +Ps 25:3; 130:5; Isa 25:9; 30:18; Mic 7:7
  • +1Ch 28:9; Isa 26:9; Zep 2:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 23-24

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 23-24

Lamentations 3:26

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “to wait patiently.”

Marginal References

  • +Ps 37:7
  • +Ps 116:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/2007, pp. 18-19

    2/15/1987, pp. 23-24

    1/15/1965, pp. 50-51

    11/1/1957, pp. 643-644

  • Publications Index

    w07 3/1 18-19; w87 2/15 23-24;

    w65 51; w57 644

Lamentations 3:27

Marginal References

  • +Ps 119:71

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1216

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 11

    5/1/1997, p. 32

    2/15/1987, pp. 23-24

    11/1/1986, pp. 19-20

    Awake!,

    9/8/1984, p. 22

  • Publications Index

    it-2 1216; w07 6/1 11; w97 5/1 32; w87 2/15 23-24; w86 11/1 19-20;

    g84 9/8 22; ad 1678

Lamentations 3:28

Marginal References

  • +Ps 39:8, 9; La 3:39

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 23-24

    10/15/1978, p. 22

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 23-24;

    w78 10/15 22

Lamentations 3:29

Marginal References

  • +Eze 16:63
  • +Joe 2:12-14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 11

    2/15/1987, pp. 23-24

    10/15/1978, p. 22

  • Publications Index

    w07 6/1 11; w87 2/15 23-24;

    w78 10/15 22

Lamentations 3:30

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 23-24

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 23-24

Lamentations 3:31

Marginal References

  • +Jer 3:12; 31:37; 32:40; Mic 7:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 24-25

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 24-25;

    w35 263

Lamentations 3:32

Marginal References

  • +Ps 30:5; 103:9, 11; Isa 54:7; Jer 31:20

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 24-25

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 24-25;

    w35 263

Lamentations 3:33

Marginal References

  • +Isa 55:7; Eze 33:11; 2Pe 3:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 24-25

    10/15/1978, pp. 22-23

    5/1/1975, p. 280

    This Life, p. 124

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 24-25;

    w78 10/15 22; w75 280; ts 124

Lamentations 3:34

Marginal References

  • +Ps 102:19, 20

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 24-25

    10/15/1978, pp. 22-23

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 24-25;

    w78 10/15 22-23

Lamentations 3:35

Marginal References

  • +Ps 12:5; Pr 17:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 24-25

    10/15/1978, pp. 22-23

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 24-25;

    w78 10/15 22-23

Lamentations 3:36

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, pp. 24-25

    10/15/1978, pp. 22-23

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 24-25;

    w78 10/15 22-23

Lamentations 3:39

Marginal References

  • +Ps 103:10; Mic 7:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    6/1/2007, p. 11

    2/15/1987, p. 25

    6/1/1954, p. 348

  • Publications Index

    w07 6/1 11; w87 2/15 25;

    w54 348

Lamentations 3:40

Marginal References

  • +Hag 1:5
  • +De 4:30; Isa 55:7; Joe 2:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, p. 25

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 25

Lamentations 3:41

Marginal References

  • +De 4:29; 2Ch 7:14; 34:27

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1987, p. 25

  • Publications Index

    w87 2/15 25

Lamentations 3:42

Marginal References

  • +Ne 9:26
  • +2Ki 24:3, 4; Da 9:5, 12

Lamentations 3:43

Marginal References

  • +Pr 15:8
  • +De 4:26; La 2:2; Eze 9:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/1988, p. 27

    3/1/1975, p. 148

    7/15/1972, p. 435

  • Publications Index

    w88 9/1 27;

    w75 148; w72 435

Lamentations 3:44

Marginal References

  • +Ps 80:4; Pr 15:29; 28:9; Isa 1:15; Mic 3:4; Zec 7:13

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    9/1/1988, p. 27

    3/1/1975, p. 148

    7/15/1972, p. 435

  • Publications Index

    w88 9/1 27;

    w75 148; w72 435

Lamentations 3:46

Marginal References

  • +La 2:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 193-194

  • Publications Index

    it-2 193-194

Lamentations 3:47

Marginal References

  • +De 28:66, 67
  • +Isa 51:19; Jer 4:6

Lamentations 3:48

Marginal References

  • +Jer 9:1

Lamentations 3:49

Marginal References

  • +Jer 14:17; La 1:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, pp. 193-194

  • Publications Index

    it-2 193-194

Lamentations 3:50

Marginal References

  • +Ps 80:14; 102:19-21; Isa 63:15

Lamentations 3:51

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “my soul.”

Marginal References

  • +Jer 11:22

Lamentations 3:53

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w35 294

Lamentations 3:54

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w35 294

Lamentations 3:55

Marginal References

  • +Ps 130:1; Jon 2:1, 2

Lamentations 3:58

Footnotes

  • *

    Or “the legal cases of my soul.”

Marginal References

  • +Jer 50:34

Lamentations 3:59

Marginal References

  • +Jer 51:36, 37

Lamentations 3:61

Marginal References

  • +Ps 74:18

Lamentations 3:63

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w47 89

Parallel Translations

Click a verse number to display parallel Bible verses.

General

Lam. 3:2De 28:15, 29; Jer 13:16
Lam. 3:3Isa 63:10
Lam. 3:5Jer 8:14; 9:15; La 3:19
Lam. 3:7Jer 39:7
Lam. 3:8Ps 80:4; 102:2; Isa 1:15; Mic 3:4
Lam. 3:9Isa 63:17
Lam. 3:10Job 38:39, 40; Ho 5:14; Am 5:18, 19
Lam. 3:11Jer 6:8; 32:43
Lam. 3:15Jer 9:15; 23:15
Lam. 3:16Ps 102:9; Jer 6:26
Lam. 3:19Ne 9:32; Ps 137:1
Lam. 3:19Jer 9:15; La 3:5
Lam. 3:20Ps 113:5-7
Lam. 3:21Ps 130:6-8; Mic 7:7
Lam. 3:22Ezr 9:8
Lam. 3:22Ne 9:31; Jer 30:11; Mic 7:18
Lam. 3:23Ps 30:5
Lam. 3:23De 32:4; Ps 36:5
Lam. 3:24Ps 16:5; 73:26; 142:5
Lam. 3:24Ps 130:6-8
Lam. 3:25Ps 25:3; 130:5; Isa 25:9; 30:18; Mic 7:7
Lam. 3:251Ch 28:9; Isa 26:9; Zep 2:3
Lam. 3:26Ps 37:7
Lam. 3:26Ps 116:6
Lam. 3:27Ps 119:71
Lam. 3:28Ps 39:8, 9; La 3:39
Lam. 3:29Eze 16:63
Lam. 3:29Joe 2:12-14
Lam. 3:31Jer 3:12; 31:37; 32:40; Mic 7:18
Lam. 3:32Ps 30:5; 103:9, 11; Isa 54:7; Jer 31:20
Lam. 3:33Isa 55:7; Eze 33:11; 2Pe 3:9
Lam. 3:34Ps 102:19, 20
Lam. 3:35Ps 12:5; Pr 17:15
Lam. 3:39Ps 103:10; Mic 7:9
Lam. 3:40Hag 1:5
Lam. 3:40De 4:30; Isa 55:7; Joe 2:13
Lam. 3:41De 4:29; 2Ch 7:14; 34:27
Lam. 3:42Ne 9:26
Lam. 3:422Ki 24:3, 4; Da 9:5, 12
Lam. 3:43Pr 15:8
Lam. 3:43De 4:26; La 2:2; Eze 9:10
Lam. 3:44Ps 80:4; Pr 15:29; 28:9; Isa 1:15; Mic 3:4; Zec 7:13
Lam. 3:46La 2:16
Lam. 3:47De 28:66, 67
Lam. 3:47Isa 51:19; Jer 4:6
Lam. 3:48Jer 9:1
Lam. 3:49Jer 14:17; La 1:16
Lam. 3:50Ps 80:14; 102:19-21; Isa 63:15
Lam. 3:51Jer 11:22
Lam. 3:55Ps 130:1; Jon 2:1, 2
Lam. 3:58Jer 50:34
Lam. 3:59Jer 51:36, 37
Lam. 3:61Ps 74:18
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
Lamentations 3:1-66

Lamentations

א [Aleph]

3 I am the man who has seen affliction because of the rod of his fury.

 2 He has driven me out and makes me walk in darkness, not in light.+

 3 Indeed, he repeatedly brings his hand against me all day long.+

ב [Beth]

 4 He has worn away my flesh and my skin;

He has broken my bones.

 5 He has besieged me; he has surrounded me with bitter poison+ and hardship.

 6 He has forced me to sit in dark places, like men who died long ago.

ג [Gimel]

 7 He has walled me in, so that I cannot escape;

He has bound me with heavy copper fetters.+

 8 And when I cry out desperately for help, he rejects* my prayer.+

 9 He has blocked up my paths with hewn stones;

He has made my roadways crooked.+

ד [Daleth]

10 He waits to ambush me like a bear, like a lion in hiding.+

11 He has forced me off the paths and torn me to pieces;*

He has made me desolate.+

12 He has bent* his bow, and he sets me up as the target for the arrow.

ה [He]

13 He has pierced my kidneys with the arrows* of his quiver.

14 I have become a laughingstock to all the peoples, the theme of their song all day long.

15 He has filled me with bitter things and saturated me with wormwood.+

ו [Waw]

16 He breaks my teeth with gravel;

He makes me cower in the ashes.+

17 You deprive me* of peace; I have forgotten what is good.

18 So I say: “My splendor has perished, as well as my expectation in Jehovah.”

ז [Zayin]

19 Remember my affliction and my homeless state,+ the wormwood and the bitter poison.+

20 You* will surely remember and bow low over me.+

21 I recall this in my heart; that is why I will show a waiting attitude.+

ח [Heth]

22 It is because of Jehovah’s loyal love that we have not come to our finish,+

For his mercies never end.+

23 They are new each morning;+ your faithfulness is abundant.+

24 “Jehovah is my share,”+ I have said,* “that is why I will show a waiting attitude for him.”+

ט [Teth]

25 Good is Jehovah to the one hoping in him,+ to the person* who keeps seeking him.+

26 Good it is to wait in silence*+ for the salvation of Jehovah.+

27 Good it is for a man to carry the yoke during his youth.+

י [Yod]

28 Let him sit alone and keep silent when He lays it upon him.+

29 Let him put his mouth in the very dust;+ there may yet be hope.+

30 Let him give his cheek to the one striking him; let him have his fill of insults.

כ [Kaph]

31 For Jehovah will not cast us off forever.+

32 Although he has caused grief, he will also show mercy according to his abundant loyal love.+

33 For it is not in his heart to afflict or grieve the sons of men.+

ל [Lamed]

34 To crush beneath one’s feet all the prisoners of the earth,+

35 To deprive a man of justice in the presence of the Most High,+

36 To defraud a man in his legal case

—Jehovah does not tolerate such things.

מ [Mem]

37 Who, then, can speak and have it happen unless Jehovah commands it?

38 From the mouth of the Most High,

Bad things and good things do not go out together.

39 Why should a living person complain about the consequences of his sin?+

נ [Nun]

40 Let us examine and scrutinize our ways,+ and let us return to Jehovah.+

41 Let us lift up our hearts along with our hands to God in the heavens:+

42 “We have transgressed and rebelled,+ and you have not forgiven.+

ס [Samekh]

43 With anger you have blocked our approach;+

You have pursued and killed us without compassion.+

44 You have blocked approach to yourself with a cloud, so that our prayer may not pass through.+

45 You make us offscouring and refuse among the peoples.”

פ [Pe]

46 All our enemies open their mouths against us.+

47 Dread and pitfalls have become our lot,+ desolation and breakdown.+

48 Streams of water flow from my eyes over the breakdown of the daughter of my people.+

ע [Ayin]

49 My eyes weep without ceasing, without pausing,+

50 Until Jehovah looks down and sees from heaven.+

51 My eyes have brought me* grief because of all the daughters of my city.+

צ [Tsade]

52 Without cause my enemies have hunted me down like a bird.

53 They have silenced my life in the pit; they kept hurling stones at me.

54 Waters flowed over my head, and I said: “I am finished!”

ק [Qoph]

55 I called out your name, O Jehovah, from the depths of the pit.+

56 Hear my voice; do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for relief.

57 You drew near in the day that I called you. You said: “Do not be afraid.”

ר [Resh]

58 You have defended my cause,* O Jehovah, you have redeemed my life.+

59 You have seen, O Jehovah, the wrong done to me; please grant me justice.+

60 You have seen all their vengeance, all their schemes against me.

ש [Sin] or [Shin]

61 You have heard their taunts, O Jehovah, all their schemes against me,+

62 The lips of my opposers and their whispering against me all day long.

63 Look at them; whether they sit or stand, they mock me in their songs!

ת [Taw]

64 You will repay them, O Jehovah, according to their deeds.

65 You will make them hardhearted, as your curse to them.

66 You will pursue them in your anger and annihilate them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

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