Lamentations 3:40-45

New International Version

⁴⁰ Let us examine our ways and test them,^(A)
    and let us return to the Lord.^(B)
41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
    to God in heaven,^(C) and say:
⁴² “We have sinned and rebelled^(D)
    and you have not forgiven.^(E)

⁴³ “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued^(F) us;
    you have slain without pity.^(G)
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud^(H)
    so that no prayer^(I) can get through.^(J)
45 You have made us scum^(K) and refuse
    among the nations.