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[a]
    (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,[b] O Lord,
    (Y)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 (Z)destroy them
    from under (AA)your heavens, O Lord.”[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:53 Or they end my life in the pit
  2. Lamentations 3:64 Or Repay them
  3. Lamentations 3:65 Or Give them
  4. Lamentations 3:65 Or place your curse
  5. Lamentations 3:66 Or Pursue them
  6. Lamentations 3:66 Syriac (compare Septuagint, Vulgate); Hebrew the heavens of the Lord

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