Lamentations 3:37-51

New International Version

³⁷ Who can speak and have it happen
    if the Lord has not decreed it?^(A)
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that both calamities and good things come?^(B)
39 Why should the living complain
    when punished for their sins?^(C)

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

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

⁴⁶ “All our enemies have opened their mouths
    wide^(O) against us.^(P)
47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls,^(Q)
    ruin and destruction.^(R)”
⁴⁸ Streams of tears^(S) flow from my eyes^(T)
    because my people are destroyed.^(U)

⁴⁹ My eyes will flow unceasingly,
    without relief,^(V)
50 until the Lord looks down
    from heaven and sees.^(W)
51 What I see brings grief to my soul
    because of all the women of my city.