The Preacher's Bible

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Jb 19:21, Ps 71:20, Ps 88:7, Ps 88:15-16, Is 53:3, Je 15:17-18, Je 20:14-18, Je 38:6, Lm 1:12-14

²He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Dt 28:29, Jb 18:18, Jb 30:26, Is 59:9, Je 4:23, Je 13:16, Lm 2:1, Lm 3:53-55, Am 5:18-20, Jd 1:6, Jd 1:13

³Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.

Dt 29:20, Jb 31:21, Is 1:25, Is 5:25, Is 63:10, Lm 2:4-7

⁴He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

Jb 16:8-9, Ps 22:14, Ps 31:9-10, Ps 32:3, Ps 38:2-8, Ps 51:8, Ps 102:3-5, Is 38:13, Je 50:17

⁵He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Jb 19:8, Ps 69:21, Je 8:14, Je 9:15, Je 23:15, Lm 3:7-9, Lm 3:19

⁶He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Ps 88:5-6, Ps 143:3, Ps 143:7

⁷He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

Jb 3:23, Jb 19:8, Ps 88:8, Je 38:6, Je 40:4, Lm 1:14, Lm 3:9, Lm 5:5, Dn 9:12, Hs 2:6

⁸Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Jb 19:7, Jb 30:20, Ps 22:2, Ps 80:4, Lm 3:44, Hb 1:2, Mt 27:46

⁹He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

Is 30:28, Is 63:17, Lm 3:11, Hs 2:6

¹⁰He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.

Jb 10:16, Ps 10:9, Ps 17:12, Is 38:13, Hs 5:14, Hs 6:1, Hs 13:7-8, Am 5:18-20

¹¹He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

Jb 16:7, Jb 16:12-13, Ps 50:22, Is 3:26, Je 5:6, Je 6:8, Je 9:10-11, Je 19:8, Je 32:43, Je 51:20-22, Lm 1:13, Dn 2:40-44, Dn 7:23, Hs 6:1, Mi 5:8, Mt 23:38, Rv 18:19

¹²He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

Jb 6:4, Jb 7:20, Jb 16:12-13, Ps 7:12-13, Ps 38:2, Lm 2:4

¹³He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

Dt 32:23, Jb 6:4, Jb 41:28

¹⁴I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.

Ne 4:2-4, Jb 30:1-9, Ps 22:6-7, Ps 35:15-16, Ps 44:13, Ps 69:11-12, Ps 79:4, Ps 123:3-4, Ps 137:3, Je 20:7, Je 48:27, Lm 3:63, Mt 27:39-44, 1Co 4:9-13

¹⁵He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

Ru 1:20, Jb 9:18, Ps 60:3, Is 51:17-22, Je 9:15, Je 23:15, Je 25:15-18, Je 25:27, Lm 3:19

¹⁶He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

Jb 2:8, Jb 4:10, Ps 3:7, Ps 58:6, Ps 102:9, Pr 20:17, Je 6:26, Jo 3:6, Mt 7:9, Lk 11:11

¹⁷You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.

Gn 41:30, Jb 7:7, Ps 119:155, Is 38:17, Is 54:10, Is 59:11, Je 8:15, Je 14:19, Je 16:5, Je 20:14-18, Lm 1:16, Zc 8:10

¹⁸I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Jehovah.”

1Sm 27:1, Jb 6:11, Jb 17:15, Ps 31:22, Ps 116:11, Ez 37:11

¹⁹Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

Ne 9:32, Jb 7:7, Ps 89:47, Ps 89:50, Ps 132:1, Je 9:15, Lm 3:5, Lm 3:15

²⁰My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

Jb 21:6, Ps 42:5-6, Ps 42:11, Ps 43:5, Ps 44:25, Ps 146:8

²¹This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

Ps 77:7-11, Ps 119:81, Ps 130:7, Lm 3:24-29, Hb 2:3

²²It is because of Jehovah’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.

Er 9:8-9, Er 9:13-15, Ne 9:31, Ps 77:8, Ps 78:38, Ps 86:15, Ps 106:45, Ez 20:8-9, Ez 20:13-14, Ez 20:21-22, Mi 7:18-19, Mc 3:6, Lk 1:50

²³They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

Ex 34:6, Ps 30:5, Ps 36:5, Ps 89:1-2, Ps 89:33, Ps 146:6, Is 33:2, Zp 3:5, Ti 1:2, Hb 6:18, Hb 10:23

²⁴“Jehovah is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

1Sm 30:6, 1Ch 5:20, Jb 13:15, Ps 16:5, Ps 31:24, Ps 33:18, Ps 42:11, Ps 43:5, Ps 62:8, Ps 73:26, Ps 84:12, Ps 119:57, Ps 130:7, Ps 142:5, Je 10:16, Je 51:19, Lm 3:21, Rm 15:12, 1Pe 1:21

²⁵Jehovah is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Gn 49:18, 1Ch 28:9, 2Ch 15:2, 2Ch 19:3, 2Ch 30:19, 2Ch 31:21, Ps 22:26, Ps 25:8, Ps 27:8, Ps 27:14, Ps 37:7, Ps 37:34, Ps 39:7, Ps 40:1-5, Ps 61:1, Ps 61:5, Ps 69:32, Ps 105:3, Ps 119:2, Ps 130:5-6, Is 25:9, Is 26:9, Is 30:18, Is 40:31, Is 55:6, Is 64:4, Lm 3:26, Hs 10:12, Mi 7:7-8, Zp 3:8, 1Th 1:10, Js 5:7

²⁶It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.

Gn 49:18, Ex 14:13, 2Ch 20:17, Ps 37:7, Ps 37:34, Ps 52:9, Ps 54:6, Ps 73:28, Ps 92:1, Ps 119:166, Ps 119:174, Ps 130:5, Is 30:7, Is 30:15, Gl 4:18, Hb 3:14, Hb 10:35, 1Pe 1:13

²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Ps 90:12, Ps 94:12, Ps 119:71, Ec 12:1, Mt 11:29-30, Hb 12:5-12

²⁸Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

Ps 39:9, Ps 102:7, Je 15:17, Lm 2:10

²⁹Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.

2Ch 33:12, Jb 40:4, Jb 42:5-6, Je 31:17, Ez 16:63, Jl 2:14, Jo 3:9, Zp 2:3, Lk 15:18-19, Lk 18:13, Rm 3:19

³⁰Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

Jb 16:10, Ps 69:9, Ps 69:20, Ps 123:3, Is 50:6, Mi 5:1, Mt 5:39, Mt 26:67, Lk 6:29, 2Co 11:20

³¹For the Lord will not cast off forever.

1Sm 12:22, Ps 77:7, Ps 94:14, Ps 103:8-10, Is 54:7-10, Is 57:16, Je 31:37, Je 32:40, Je 33:24, Mi 7:18, Rm 11:1-6

³²For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Ex 2:23, Ex 3:7, Jg 10:16, 2Kg 13:23, Ps 30:5, Ps 78:38, Ps 103:11, Ps 106:43-45, Je 31:20, Lm 3:22, Hs 11:8, Lk 15:20

³³For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

Is 28:21, Ez 18:32, Ez 33:11, Hb 12:9-10

³⁴To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

Ps 69:33, Ps 79:11, Ps 102:20, Is 14:17, Is 49:9, Is 51:22-23, Je 50:17, Je 50:33-34, Je 51:33-36, Zc 9:11-12

³⁵to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

³⁶to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

2Sm 11:27, Is 59:15, Je 22:3, Hb 1:13

³⁷Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Ps 33:9-11, Pr 16:9, Pr 19:21, Pr 21:30, Is 46:10, Dn 4:35, Rm 9:15, Ep 1:11, Js 4:13-15

³⁸Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

Jb 2:10, Ps 75:7, Pr 29:26, Is 45:7, Je 32:42, Am 3:6

³⁹Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

⁴¹Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

Ps 25:1, Ps 28:2, Ps 63:4, Ps 86:4, Ps 141:2, Ps 143:6-8, 1Th 2:8

⁴²“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.

2Kg 24:4, Ne 9:26, Jb 33:27-28, Je 3:13, Je 5:7-9, Lm 1:18, Lm 5:16, Ez 24:13, Dn 9:5-14, Zc 1:5, Lk 15:18-19

⁴³“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

2Ch 36:16-17, Ps 44:19, Ps 83:15, Lm 2:1-2, Lm 2:17, Lm 2:21, Lm 3:66, Ez 7:9, Ez 8:18, Ez 9:10

⁴⁴You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Ps 80:4, Ps 97:2, Je 14:11, Je 15:1, Lm 3:8, Zc 7:13

⁴⁵You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.

Dt 28:13, Dt 28:37, Dt 28:44, Lm 2:15, Lm 3:14, Lm 4:14-15, 1Co 4:13

⁴⁶“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Ex 11:7, Jb 30:9-11, Ps 22:6-8, Ps 44:13-14, Ps 79:4, Ps 79:10, Lm 2:16, Mt 27:38-45

⁴⁷Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”

Is 24:17-18, Is 51:19, Je 48:43-44, Lm 1:4, Lm 1:13, Lm 2:1-9, Lk 21:35

⁴⁸My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Ps 119:136, Je 4:19, Je 9:1, Je 9:18, Je 13:17, Lm 1:16, Lm 2:11, Lm 2:18, Rm 9:1-3

⁴⁹My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,

Ps 77:2, Je 14:17, Lm 1:16

⁵⁰until Jehovah looks down, and sees from heaven.

Ps 80:14-16, Ps 102:19-20, Is 62:6-7, Is 63:15, Is 64:1, Lm 2:20, Lm 5:1, Dn 9:16-19

⁵¹My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

Gn 44:34, 1Sm 30:3-4, Je 4:19-21, Je 11:22, Je 14:16, Je 14:18, Je 19:9, Lm 1:18, Lm 2:21, Lm 5:11, Lk 19:41-44

⁵²They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

1Sm 24:10-15, 1Sm 25:28-29, 1Sm 26:18-20, Ps 11:1, Ps 35:7, Ps 35:19, Ps 69:4, Ps 109:3, Ps 119:161, Je 37:15-16, Je 37:18, Je 38:4-6, Jn 15:25

⁵³They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

Je 37:16, Je 37:20, Je 38:6, Je 38:9, Dn 6:17, Mt 27:60, Mt 27:66

⁵⁴Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

Jb 17:11-16, Ps 18:4, Ps 31:22, Ps 69:1-2, Ps 69:15, Ps 124:4-5, Is 38:10-13, Lm 3:18, Ez 37:11, Jo 2:3-5, 2Co 1:8-10

⁵⁵I called on your name, Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

2Ch 33:11-12, Ps 18:5-6, Ps 40:1-2, Ps 69:13-18, Ps 116:3-4, Ps 130:1-2, Ps 142:3-7, Je 38:6, Jo 2:2-4, Ac 16:24-28

⁵⁶You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”

2Ch 33:13, 2Ch 33:19, Jb 34:28, Ps 3:4, Ps 6:8-9, Ps 34:6, Ps 55:1, Ps 66:19, Ps 88:13-14, Ps 116:1-2, Is 38:5, Rm 8:26

⁵⁷You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

Ps 69:18, Ps 145:18, Is 41:10, Is 41:14, Is 43:1-2, Is 58:9, Je 1:17, Ac 18:9, Ac 27:24, Js 4:8, Rv 1:17, Rv 2:10

⁵⁸Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.

Gn 48:16, 1Sm 25:39, Ps 34:22-35:1, Ps 71:23, Ps 103:4, Je 50:34, Je 51:36

⁵⁹Jehovah, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

Gn 31:42, Ps 9:4, Ps 26:1, Ps 35:1, Ps 35:23, Ps 43:1, Je 11:19-21, Je 15:10, Je 18:18-23, Je 20:7-10, Je 37:1-21, 1Pe 2:23

⁶⁰You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.

Ps 10:14, Je 11:19-20, Lm 3:59

⁶¹You have heard their reproach, Jehovah, and all their plans against me,

Ps 74:18, Ps 89:50, Lm 3:30, Lm 5:1, Zp 2:8

⁶²the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

Ps 59:7, Ps 59:12, Ps 140:3, Je 18:18, Ez 36:3

⁶³You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.

Jb 30:9, Ps 139:2, Lm 3:14

⁶⁴You will pay them back, Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

Ps 28:4, Je 11:20, Je 50:29, 1Tm 4:14, Rv 6:10, Rv 18:6

⁶⁵You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

Dt 2:30, Dt 27:15-26, Ps 109:17-18, Is 6:10, 1Co 16:22

⁶⁶You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

Dt 7:24, Dt 25:19, Dt 29:20, 2Kg 14:27, Ps 8:3, Ps 35:6, Ps 73:15, Ps 115:16, Is 66:1, Je 10:11, Lm 3:43

Lamentations 3

Gn

Genesis

Ex

Exodus

Lv

Leviticus

Nm

Numbers

Dt

Deuteronomy

Jo

Joshua

Jg

Judges

Ru

Ruth

1Sm

1 Samuel

2Sm

2 Samuel

1Kg

1 Kings

2Kg

2 Kings

1Ch

1 Chronicles

2Ch

2 Chronicles

Er

Ezra

Ne

Nehemiah

Es

Esther

Jb

Job

Ps

Psalms

Pr

Proverbs

Ec

Ecclesiastes

Sg

Song of Songs

Is

Isaiah

Je

Jeremiah

Lm

Lamentations

Ez

Ezekiel

Dn

Daniel

Hs

Hosea

Jl

Joel

Am

Amos

Ob

Obadiah

Jo

Jonah

Mi

Micah

Na

Nahum

Hb

Habakkuk

Zp

Zephaniah

Hg

Haggai

Zc

Zechariah

Mc

Malachi

Mt