Lamentations 3:3
Good News Translation
And beat me again and again with merciless blows.

New Revised Standard Version
against me alone he turns his hand, again and again, all day long.

Contemporary English Version
I am the only one he punishes over and over again, without ever stopping.

New American Bible
Against me alone he turns his hand— again and again all day long.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

Lamentations 2:4-7 Daleth. He hath bent his bow as an enemy, he hath fixed his right hand as an adversary: and he hath killed all that was fair to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion, he hath poured out his indignation like fire. . . .

Deuteronomy 29:20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

Job 31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, even when I saw myself superior in the gate:

Isaiah 1:25 And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin.

Isaiah 63:10 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Context
Jeremiah's Afflictions
2Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. 3Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.4Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.…
Cross References
Psalm 38:2
For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.

Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubles, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For after this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Lamentations 3:2
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