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Jeremiah Shares Israel’s Affliction
I am the man who has seen affliction
Because of the rod of His wrath.
I am the man who has seen affliction
Because of the rod of His wrath.
Hope in the LORD’s Faithfulness
I am the one who has seen the afflictions
that come from the rod of the LORD’s anger.
I am the one who has seen the afflictions
that come from the rod of the LORD’s anger.
He has driven me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.
In darkness and not in light.
He has led me into darkness,
shutting out all light.
shutting out all light.
Surely against me He has turned His hand
Repeatedly all the day.
Repeatedly all the day.
He has turned his hand against me
again and again, all day long.
again and again, all day long.
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away,
He has broken my bones.
He has broken my bones.
He has made my skin and flesh grow old.
He has broken my bones.
He has broken my bones.
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship.
He has besieged and surrounded me
with anguish and distress.
with anguish and distress.
In dark places He has made me dwell,
Like those who have long been dead.
Like those who have long been dead.
He has buried me in a dark place,
like those long dead.
like those long dead.
He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;
He has made my chain heavy.
He has made my chain heavy.
He has walled me in, and I cannot escape.
He has bound me in heavy chains.
He has bound me in heavy chains.
Even when I cry out and call for help,
He shuts out my prayer.
He shuts out my prayer.
And though I cry and shout,
he has shut out my prayers.
he has shut out my prayers.
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;
He has made my paths crooked.
He has made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my way with a high stone wall;
he has made my road crooked.
he has made my road crooked.
He is to me like a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in secret places.
Like a lion in secret places.
He has hidden like a bear or a lion,
waiting to attack me.
waiting to attack me.
He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces;
He has made me desolate.
He has made me desolate.
He has dragged me off the path and torn me in pieces,
leaving me helpless and devastated.
leaving me helpless and devastated.
He bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.
And set me as a target for the arrow.
He has drawn his bow
and made me the target for his arrows.
and made me the target for his arrows.
He made the arrows of His quiver
To enter into my inward parts.
To enter into my inward parts.
He shot his arrows
deep into my heart.
deep into my heart.
I have become a laughingstock to all my people,
Their mocking song all the day.
Their mocking song all the day.
My own people laugh at me.
All day long they sing their mocking songs.
All day long they sing their mocking songs.
He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.
He has made me drunk with wormwood.
He has filled me with bitterness
and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
He has broken my teeth with gravel;
He has made me cower in the dust.
He has made me cower in the dust.
He has made me chew on gravel.
He has rolled me in the dust.
He has rolled me in the dust.
My soul has been rejected from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.
I have forgotten happiness.
Peace has been stripped away,
and I have forgotten what prosperity is.
and I have forgotten what prosperity is.
So I say, “My strength has perished,
And so has my hope from the LORD.”
And so has my hope from the LORD.”
I cry out, “My splendor is gone!
Everything I had hoped for from the LORD is lost!”
Everything I had hoped for from the LORD is lost!”
Hope of Relief in God’s Mercy
Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
Surely my soul remembers
And is bowed down within me.
And is bowed down within me.
I will never forget this awful time,
as I grieve over my loss.
as I grieve over my loss.
This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
Therefore I have hope.
Yet I still dare to hope
when I remember this:
when I remember this:
The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.
For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
Great is Your faithfulness.
Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I have hope in Him.”
“Therefore I have hope in Him.”
I say to myself, “The LORD is my inheritance;
therefore, I will hope in him!”
therefore, I will hope in him!”
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
To the person who seeks Him.
To the person who seeks Him.
The LORD is good to those who depend on him,
to those who search for him.
to those who search for him.
It is good that he waits silently
For the salvation of the LORD.
For the salvation of the LORD.
So it is good to wait quietly
for salvation from the LORD.
for salvation from the LORD.
It is good for a man that he should bear
The yoke in his youth.
The yoke in his youth.
And it is good for people to submit at an early age
to the yoke of his discipline:
to the yoke of his discipline:
Let him sit alone and be silent
Since He has laid it on him.
Since He has laid it on him.
Let them sit alone in silence
beneath the LORD’s demands.
beneath the LORD’s demands.
Let him put his mouth in the dust,
Perhaps there is hope.
Perhaps there is hope.
Let them lie face down in the dust,
for there may be hope at last.
for there may be hope at last.
Let him give his cheek to the smiter,
Let him be filled with reproach.
Let him be filled with reproach.
Let them turn the other cheek to those who strike them
and accept the insults of their enemies.
and accept the insults of their enemies.
For if He causes grief,
Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness.
Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness.
Though he brings grief, he also shows compassion
because of the greatness of his unfailing love.
because of the greatness of his unfailing love.
For He does not afflict willingly
Or grieve the sons of men.
Or grieve the sons of men.
For he does not enjoy hurting people
or causing them sorrow.
or causing them sorrow.
To crush under His feet
All the prisoners of the land,
All the prisoners of the land,
If people crush underfoot
all the prisoners of the land,
all the prisoners of the land,
To deprive a man of justice
In the presence of the Most High,
In the presence of the Most High,
if they deprive others of their rights
in defiance of the Most High,
in defiance of the Most High,
To defraud a man in his lawsuit —
Of these things the Lord does not approve.
Of these things the Lord does not approve.
if they twist justice in the courts —
doesn’t the Lord see all these things?
doesn’t the Lord see all these things?
Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has commanded it?
Unless the Lord has commanded it?
Who can command things to happen
without the Lord’s permission?
without the Lord’s permission?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?
That both good and ill go forth?
Does not the Most High
send both calamity and good?
send both calamity and good?
Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Offer complaint in view of his sins?
Offer complaint in view of his sins?
Then why should we, mere humans, complain
when we are punished for our sins?
when we are punished for our sins?
Let us examine and probe our ways,
And let us return to the LORD.
And let us return to the LORD.
Instead, let us test and examine our ways.
Let us turn back to the LORD.
Let us turn back to the LORD.
We lift up our heart and hands
Toward God in heaven;
Toward God in heaven;
Let us lift our hearts and hands
to God in heaven and say,
to God in heaven and say,
We have transgressed and rebelled,
You have not pardoned.
You have not pardoned.
“We have sinned and rebelled,
and you have not forgiven us.
and you have not forgiven us.
You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and have not spared.
And pursued us;
You have slain and have not spared.
“You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down,
and slaughtered us without mercy.
and slaughtered us without mercy.
You have covered Yourself with a cloud
So that no prayer can pass through.
So that no prayer can pass through.
You have hidden yourself in a cloud
so our prayers cannot reach you.
so our prayers cannot reach you.
You have made us mere offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.
In the midst of the peoples.
You have discarded us as refuse and garbage
among the nations.
among the nations.
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
“All our enemies
have spoken out against us.
have spoken out against us.
Panic and pitfall have befallen us,
Devastation and destruction;
Devastation and destruction;
We are filled with fear,
for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined.”
for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined.”
My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Tears stream from my eyes
because of the destruction of my people!
because of the destruction of my people!
Until the LORD looks down
And sees from heaven.
And sees from heaven.
until the LORD looks down
from heaven and sees.
from heaven and sees.
My eyes bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
Because of all the daughters of my city.
My heart is breaking
over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.
over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.
My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird;
Hunted me down like a bird;
My enemies, whom I have never harmed,
hunted me down like a bird.
hunted me down like a bird.
They have silenced me in the pit
And have placed a stone on me.
And have placed a stone on me.
They threw me into a pit
and dropped stones on me.
and dropped stones on me.
Waters flowed over my head;
I said, “I am cut off!”
I said, “I am cut off!”
The water rose over my head,
and I cried out, “This is the end!”
and I cried out, “This is the end!”
I called on Your name, O LORD,
Out of the lowest pit.
Out of the lowest pit.
But I called on your name, LORD,
from deep within the pit.
from deep within the pit.
You have heard my voice,
“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”
“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”
You heard me when I cried, “Listen to my pleading!
Hear my cry for help!”
Hear my cry for help!”
You drew near when I called on You;
You said, “Do not fear!”
You said, “Do not fear!”
Yes, you came when I called;
you told me, “Do not fear.”
you told me, “Do not fear.”
O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause;
You have redeemed my life.
You have redeemed my life.
Lord, you have come to my defense;
you have redeemed my life.
you have redeemed my life.
O LORD, You have seen my oppression;
Judge my case.
Judge my case.
You have seen the wrong they have done to me, LORD.
Be my judge, and prove me right.
Be my judge, and prove me right.
You have seen all their vengeance,
All their schemes against me.
All their schemes against me.
You have seen the vengeful plots
my enemies have laid against me.
my enemies have laid against me.
You have heard their reproach, O LORD,
All their schemes against me.
All their schemes against me.
LORD, you have heard the vile names they call me.
You know all about the plans they have made.
You know all about the plans they have made.
The lips of my assailants and their whispering
Are against me all day long.
Are against me all day long.
My enemies whisper and mutter
as they plot against me all day long.
as they plot against me all day long.
Look on their sitting and their rising;
I am their mocking song.
I am their mocking song.
Look at them! Whether they sit or stand,
I am the object of their mocking songs.
I am the object of their mocking songs.
You will recompense them, O LORD,
According to the work of their hands.
According to the work of their hands.
Pay them back, LORD,
for all the evil they have done.
for all the evil they have done.
You will give them hardness of heart,
Your curse will be on them.
Your curse will be on them.
Give them hard and stubborn hearts,
and then let your curse fall on them!
and then let your curse fall on them!