Lamentations 3:39-55

English Standard Version

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

⁴³ “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
    ^(F)killing without pity;
^44 (G)you have wrapped yourself with a cloud
    so that no prayer can pass through.
^45 (H)You have made us scum and garbage
    among the peoples.

^46 (I)“All our enemies
    open their mouths against us;
^47 (J)panic and pitfall have come upon us,
    devastation and ^(K)destruction;
^48 (L)my eyes flow with rivers of tears
    because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

^49 (M)“My eyes will flow without ceasing,
    without respite,
^50 (N)until the Lord from heaven
    looks down and sees;
⁵¹ my eyes cause me grief
    at the fate of all the daughters of my city.

^52 (O)“I have been hunted ^(P)like a bird
    by those who were my enemies ^(Q)without cause;
^53 (R)they flung me alive into the pit^{[a]
    (S)}and cast stones on me;
^54 (T)water closed over my head;
    I said, ^(U)‘I am lost.’

^55 (V)“I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit;