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Lamentations 3:1-11 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. I have suffered muchbecause God was angry.

2. He chased me into a dark place,where no light could enter.

3. I am the only one he punishesover and over again,without ever stopping.

4. God caused my skin and fleshto waste away,and he crushed my bones.

5. He attacked and surrounded mewith hardships and trouble;

6. he forced me to sit in the darklike someone long dead.

7. God built a fence around methat I cannot climb over,and he chained me down.

8. Even when I shoutedand prayed for help,he refused to listen.

9. God put big rocks in my wayand made me followa crooked path.

10. God was like a bear or a lionwaiting in ambush for me;

11. he dragged me from the road,then tore me to shreds.

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