Lamentations 3:39-66 ▼

39 MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?

40 NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.

41 NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.

42 NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.

43 SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.

44 SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.

45 SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.

46 PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.

47 PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.

48 PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.

49 AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest

50 AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.

51 AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.

52 SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.

53 SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.

54 SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.”

55 COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.

56 COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries.

57 COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, “Fear not.”

58 RES. You have judged, O Lord, the case of my soul. You are the Redeemer of my life.

59 RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case.

60 RES. You have seen all their fury, every one of their thoughts is against me.

61 SIN. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their thoughts are against me.

62 SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long.

63 SIN. Watch their sitting down and their rising up: I am their psalm.

64 THAU. You shall pay a recompense to them, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

65 THAU. You shall give them a heavy shield of the heart: your hardship.

66 THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord.