Lamentations 3:43-66

English Standard Version

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

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

^49 (H)“My eyes will flow without ceasing,
    without respite,
^50 (I)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 (J)“I have been hunted ^(K)like a bird
    by those who were my enemies ^(L)without cause;
^53 (M)they flung me alive into the pit^{[a]
    (N)}and cast stones on me;
^54 (O)water closed over my head;
    I said, ^(P)‘I am lost.’

^55 (Q)“I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit;
^56 (R)you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
    your ear to my cry for help!’
^57 (S)You came near when I called on you;
    you said, ^(T)‘Do not fear!’

⁵⁸ “You have ^(U)taken up my cause, ^(V)O Lord;
    you have ^(W)redeemed my life.
⁵⁹ You have seen the wrong done to me, ^(X)O Lord;
    judge my cause.
⁶⁰ You have seen all their vengeance,
    all ^(Y)their plots against me.

^61 (Z)“You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
    all ^(AA)their plots against me.
⁶² The lips and thoughts ^(AB)of my assailants
    are against me all the day long.
^63 (AC)Behold their sitting and their rising;
    ^(AD)I am the object of their taunts.

^64 (AE)“You will repay them,^[b] O Lord,
    ^(AF)according to the work of their hands.
⁶⁵ You will give them^[c] dullness of heart;
    your curse will be^[d] on them.
⁶⁶ You will pursue them^[e] in anger and ^(AG)destroy them
    from under ^(AH)your heavens, O Lord.”^[f]