# Daily Bible Reading | Lamentations 3 - From: Resonate Church — DISC | Resonate Bible Reading Plan - Sent: December 5, 2025 (2025-12-05T12:01:09.124Z) - Web version: https://resonatechurch.flowforth.co/emails/disc-resonate-bible-reading-plan/1589 - More emails: https://resonatechurch.flowforth.co/emails/disc-resonate-bible-reading-plan --- [![](https://churchusercontent.com/api/image-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fauth.churchspace.co%2Fstorage%2Fv1%2Fobject%2Fpublic%2Forganization-assets%2Fcf7ebbc1-eaca-4046-86f9-54f6cb303b54%2Fresonate_logo_3x1_2025-06-24T00-26-16-978Z.png)](https://resonatemovement.org) [![Introduction to Lamentations](https://churchusercontent.com/api/image-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fauth.churchspace.co%2Fstorage%2Fv1%2Fobject%2Fpublic%2Forganization-assets%2Fcf7ebbc1-eaca-4046-86f9-54f6cb303b54%2FLamentations_2025-10-25T23-47-23-384Z.png)](https://www.esv.org/resources/esv-global-study-bible/introduction-to-lamentations/) [Introduction to Lamentations](https://www.esv.org/resources/esv-global-study-bible/introduction-to-lamentations/) # ***LAMENTATIONS 3*** --- *Great Is Your Faithfulness* \[1\] I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; \[2\] he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; \[3\] surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. \[4\] He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; \[5\] he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; \[6\] he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago. \[7\] He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; \[8\] though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; \[9\] he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked. \[10\] He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding; \[11\] he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate; \[12\] he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow. \[13\] He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver; \[14\] I have become the laughingstock of all my people, the object of their taunts all day long. \[15\] He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood. \[16\] He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes; \[17\] my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; \[18\] so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD.” \[19\] Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! \[20\] My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. \[21\] But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: \[22\] The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; \[23\] they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. \[24\] “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” \[25\] The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. \[26\] It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. \[27\] It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. \[28\] Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him; \[29\] let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope; \[30\] let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults. \[31\] For the Lord will not cast off forever, \[32\] for, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; \[33\] for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men. \[34\] To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth, \[35\] to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High, \[36\] to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve. \[37\] Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it? \[38\] Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come? \[39\] Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins? \[40\] Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD! \[41\] Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: \[42\] “We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. \[43\] “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; \[44\] you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through. \[45\] You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples. \[46\] “All our enemies open their mouths against us; \[47\] panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction; \[48\] my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. \[49\] “My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite, \[50\] until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees; \[51\] my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city. \[52\] “I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause; \[53\] they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me; \[54\] water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’ \[55\] “I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit; \[56\] you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’ \[57\] You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear!’ \[58\] “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life. \[59\] You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause. \[60\] You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me. \[61\] “You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me. \[62\] The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long. \[63\] Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts. \[64\] “You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. \[65\] You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them. \[66\] You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD.” (ESV)