diff --git a/json-path/pom.xml b/json-path/pom.xml
index 8f06999d..4d534b4e 100644
--- a/json-path/pom.xml
+++ b/json-path/pom.xml
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
-            <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Criteria.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Criteria.java
index 222c9dfa..8e67cf10 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Criteria.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/Criteria.java
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ import java.util.*;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
-import static org.apache.commons.lang.Validate.notEmpty;
-import static org.apache.commons.lang.Validate.notNull;
+import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.notEmpty;
+import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.notNull;
 
 /**
  * @author Kalle Stenflo
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonModel.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonModel.java
index 5981c760..e9971b0a 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonModel.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonModel.java
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.*;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
-import static org.apache.commons.lang.Validate.*;
+import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.*;
 
 /**
  * A JsonModel holds a parsed JSON document and provides easy read and write operations. In contrast to the
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java
index 5af8a171..cb708788 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonPath.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.filter.PathTokenFilter;
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.HttpProviderFactory;
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.JsonProvider;
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.JsonProviderFactory;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.net.URL;
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
-import static org.apache.commons.lang.Validate.*;
+import static org.apache.commons.lang3.Validate.*;
 
 /**
  * <p/>
diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/impl/AbstractJsonProvider.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/impl/AbstractJsonProvider.java
index 10951b84..c0abb31e 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/impl/AbstractJsonProvider.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/impl/AbstractJsonProvider.java
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 package com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.impl;
 
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.JsonProvider;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.SerializationUtils;
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.List;
diff --git a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonProviderTest.java b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonProviderTest.java
index c87d56b0..97949795 100644
--- a/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonProviderTest.java
+++ b/json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/JsonProviderTest.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package com.jayway.jsonpath;
 
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.impl.JacksonProvider;
-import org.apache.commons.lang.SerializationUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.SerializationUtils;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import java.io.Serializable;
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e3c9bb00..87ea1607 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@
             </dependency>
 
             <dependency>
-                <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
-                <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
-                <version>2.6</version>
+                <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+                <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+                <version>3.1</version>
             </dependency>
 
             <dependency>