Lamentations 3:43-66

New King James Version

⁴³ You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and not pitied.
⁴⁴ You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
That prayer should not pass through.
⁴⁵ You have made us an ^(A)offscouring and refuse
In the midst of the peoples.

^46 (B)All our enemies
Have opened their mouths against us.
^47 (C)Fear and a snare have come upon us,
^(D)Desolation and destruction.
^48 (E)My eyes overflow with rivers of water
For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

^49 (F)My eyes flow and do not cease,
Without interruption,
⁵⁰ Till the Lord from heaven
^(G)Looks down and sees.
⁵¹ My eyes bring suffering to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.

⁵² My enemies ^(H)without cause
Hunted me down like a bird.
⁵³ They ^[a]silenced my life ^(I)in the pit
And ^(J)threw ^[b]stones at me.
^54 (K)The waters flowed over my head;
^(L)I said, “I am cut off!”

^55 (M)I called on Your name, O Lord,
From the lowest ^(N)pit.
^56 (O)You have heard my voice:
“Do not hide Your ear
From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
⁵⁷ You ^(P)drew near on the day I called on You,
And said, ^(Q)“Do not fear!”

⁵⁸ O Lord, You have ^(R)pleaded the case for my soul;
^(S)You have redeemed my life.
⁵⁹ O Lord, You have seen ^[c]how I am wronged;
^(T)Judge my case.
⁶⁰ You have seen all their vengeance,
All their ^(U)schemes against me.

⁶¹ You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
All their schemes against me,
⁶² The lips of my enemies
And their whispering against me all the day.
⁶³ Look at their ^(V)sitting down and their rising up;
I am their taunting song.

^64 (W)Repay them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.
⁶⁵ Give them ^[d]a veiled heart;
Your curse be upon them!
⁶⁶ In Your anger,
Pursue and destroy them
^(X)From under the heavens of the ^(Y)Lord.