Lamentations 3:49-66
English Standard Version
49 (A)“My eyes will flow without ceasing,
without respite,
50 (B)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 (C)“I have been hunted (D)like a bird
by those who were my enemies (E)without cause;
53 (F)they flung me alive into the pit
(G)and cast stones on me;
54 (H)water closed over my head;
I said, (I)‘I am lost.’
55 (J)“I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
56 (K)you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
your ear to my cry for help!’
57 (L)You came near when I called on you;
you said, (M)‘Do not fear!’
58 “You have (N)taken up my cause, (O)O Lord;
you have (P)redeemed my life.
59 You have seen the wrong done to me, (Q)O Lord;
judge my cause.
60 You have seen all their vengeance,
all (R)their plots against me.
61 (S)“You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
all (T)their plots against me.
62 The lips and thoughts (U)of my assailants
are against me all the day long.
63 (V)Behold their sitting and their rising;
(W)I am the object of their taunts.
64 (X)“You will repay them,[a] O Lord,
(Y)according to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them[b] dullness of heart;
your curse will be[c] on them.
66 You will pursue them[d] in anger and (Z)destroy them
from under (AA)your heavens, O Lord.”[e]
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:64 Or Repay them
- Lamentations 3:65 Or Give them
- Lamentations 3:65 Or place your curse
- Lamentations 3:66 Or Pursue them
- Lamentations 3:66 Syriac (compare Septuagint, Vulgate); Hebrew the heavens of the Lord
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