Lamentations 3:39-66 ▼

39 What should the living complain about? about their sins!

40 Let us search and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!

41 Let us lift up our hearts as well as our hands toward God in heaven!

42 We have rebelled and been obstinate; you have not forgiven us.

43 You wrapped yourself in wrath and pursued us, killing without pity;

44 You wrapped yourself in a cloud, which no prayer could pierce.

45 You have made us filth and rubbish among the peoples.

46 They have opened their mouths against us, all our enemies;

47 Panic and the pit have been our lot, desolation and destruction;

48 My eyes stream with tears over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My eyes will flow without ceasing, without rest,

50 Until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees.

51 I am tormented by the sight of all the daughters of my city.

52 Without cause, my enemies snared me as though I were a bird;

53 They tried to end my life in the pit, pelting me with stones.

54 The waters flowed over my head: and I said, “I am lost!”

55 I have called upon your name, O LORD, from the bottom of the pit;

56 You heard me call, “Do not let your ear be deaf to my cry for help.”

57 You drew near on the day I called you; you said, “Do not fear!”

58 You pleaded my case, Lord, you redeemed my life.

59 You see, LORD, how I am wronged; do me justice!

60 You see all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me.

61 You hear their reproach, LORD, all their plots against me,

62 The whispered murmurings of my adversaries, against me all day long;

63 Look! Whether they sit or stand, I am the butt of their taunt.

64 Give them what they deserve, LORD, according to their deeds;

65 Give them hardness of heart; your curse be upon them;

66 Pursue them in wrath and destroy them from under the LORD’s heaven!