Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Lamentations 3:17-25 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

17. Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.

18. Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

19. Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall.

20. Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me.

21. Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

22. Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

23. Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

24. Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

25. Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.