Lamentations 3:12

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man, on animal, on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and will not be quenched.”

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation.

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

“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.

All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness. They will drink water by measure, and in dismay;

Now I will shortly pour out my wrath on you, and accomplish my anger against you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.

“Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;

Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.

Achan answered Joshua, and said, “I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me seriously for your sakes, for Yahweh’s hand has gone out against me.”

But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders.

They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, “Send the ark of the God of Israel away, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly panic throughout all the city. The hand of God was very heavy there.

Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us. It was a chance that happened to us.”

Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath is poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.’ ” ’

You are Yahweh, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

Terrors will make him afraid on every side, and will chase him at his heels.

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.

Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom. God may refute him, not man;’

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

House of David, Yahweh says, ‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will each return from his evil way; for Yahweh has pronounced great anger and wrath against this people.”

The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

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

“ ‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.

when I send on them the evil arrows of famine that are for destruction, which I will send to destroy you. I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread.

He who is far off will die of the pestilence. He who is near will fall by the sword. He who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus I will accomplish my wrath on them.

I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.

As silver is melted in the middle of the furnace, so you will be melted in the middle of it; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.’ ”

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.

You uncovered your bow. You called for your sworn arrows. You split the earth with rivers.