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Lamentations · read by David Wilkerson
21 verses, in order. Only the verses David read aloud are shown.
Lamentations 1
5
Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
16
For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
18
The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
Lamentations 2
19
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
Lamentations 3
2
He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.Read from NKJV · The Heaviness of Sin
7
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.Read from NKJV · The Heaviness of Sin
8
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.Read from NKJV · Gods People Are Hurting
22
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.Read from KJV · Gods People Are Hurting
24
"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in Him."Read from KJV · Gods People Are Hurting
25
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.Read from KJV · Gods People Are Hurting
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You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.Read from KJV · Gods People Are Hurting
Lamentations 4
1
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
2
How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter's hands!Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
6
The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
9
Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
10
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
13
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
14
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
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All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign
18
They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!Read from NASB1995 · The Beggars Are a Sign