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    "content": "Lamentations, Chapter 3 — 66 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall, and labour.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 24,
      "text": "Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:24 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 25,
      "text": "Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:25 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 26,
      "text": "Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:26 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 27,
      "text": "Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:27 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 28,
      "text": "Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:28 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 29,
      "text": "Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:29 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 30,
      "text": "Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:30 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 31,
      "text": "Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:31 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 32,
      "text": "Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:32 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 33,
      "text": "Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:33 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 34,
      "text": "Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:34 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 35,
      "text": "Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:35 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 36,
      "text": "Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:36 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 37,
      "text": "Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:37 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 38,
      "text": "Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:38 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 39,
      "text": "Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:39 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 40,
      "text": "Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:40 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 41,
      "text": "Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:41 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 42,
      "text": "Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:42 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 43,
      "text": "Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:43 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 44,
      "text": "Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:44 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 45,
      "text": "Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:45 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 46,
      "text": "Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:46 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 47,
      "text": "Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:47 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 48,
      "text": "Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:48 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 49,
      "text": "Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:49 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 50,
      "text": "Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:50 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 51,
      "text": "Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:51 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 52,
      "text": "Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:52 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 53,
      "text": "Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:53 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 54,
      "text": "Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:54 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 55,
      "text": "Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:55 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 56,
      "text": "Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:56 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 57,
      "text": "Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:57 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 58,
      "text": "Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:58 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 59,
      "text": "Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:59 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 60,
      "text": "Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:60 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 61,
      "text": "Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:61 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 62,
      "text": "Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:62 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 63,
      "text": "Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:63 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 64,
      "text": "Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:64 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 65,
      "text": "Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:65 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 66,
      "text": "Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.",
      "citation": "Lamentations 3:66 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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