Lamentations 3:39-66 ▼

39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

42 We have transgressed and have rebelled, and you have not forgiven.

43 You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you killed without sparing.

44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

45 You have made us rubbish and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

47 Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.

48 Streams of tears run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My tears flow and do not cease, without respite,

50 until the LORD looks down and sees from heaven.

51 My eyes bring my soul grief, because of all the daughters of my city.

52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in a pit, and have cast a stone on me.

54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, 'I am finished.'

55 I called on your name, LORD, out of the depths of the pit.

56 You heard my voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry.

57 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, |Do not be afraid.|

58 LORD, you have taken up the case for my soul; you have redeemed my life.

59 You have seen, LORD, the wrong done to me; judge my case.

60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.

61 You have heard their insults, LORD, and all their plots against me.

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

63 Look their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their mocking song.

64 You will render to them what they deserve, LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 You will give them hardness of heart as your curse to them.

66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.