Lamentations 3:55-66

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁵⁵ I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit;^(A)
56 you heard my plea, “Do not close your ear
    to my cry for help, but give me relief!”^(B)
57 You came near when I called on you;
    you said, “Do not fear!”^(C)

⁵⁸ You have taken up my cause, O Lord;
    you have redeemed my life.^(D)
59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;
    judge my cause.
⁶⁰ You have seen all their malice,
    all their plots against me.^(E)

⁶¹ You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
    all their plots against me.
⁶² The whispers and murmurs of my assailants
    are against me all day long.
⁶³ Whether they sit or rise—see,
    I am the object of their taunt songs.

⁶⁴ Pay them back for their deeds, O Lord,
    according to the work of their hands!
⁶⁵ Give them anguish of heart;
    your curse be on them!
⁶⁶ Pursue them in anger and destroy them
    from under the Lord’s heavens.^(F)