Lamentations 3:1-20

Bishops^{(i) 1} I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie ² He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light ³ Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me ⁴ My flesh and my skinne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he bruised ⁵ He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile ⁶ He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer ⁷ He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me ⁸ Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer ⁹ He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, and made my pathes crooked ¹⁰ He layeth wayte for me lyke a beare, and as a lion in a hole ¹¹ He hath marred my wayes, and broken me in peeces, he hath layde me waste altogether ¹² He hath bent his bowe, and made me as it were a marke to shoote at ¹³ The arrowes of his quiuer hath he shot, euen into my reynes ¹⁴ I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long ¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitternesse, and geuen me wormewood to drinke ¹⁶ He hath smitten my teeth in peeces with stones, and roulled me in the dust ¹⁷ He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges ¹⁸ I thought in my selfe, I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the Lorde ¹⁹ O remember yet my miserie and my trouble, the wormewood and the gall ²⁰ Yea thou shalt remember them, for my soule melteth away in me