Lamentations 3:48-66 ▼

48 My eyes are worn with tears because of the destruction of all the daughters of the cities of my people.

49 All our enemies speak evil against us.

50 Fear and trembling have come upon us, a snare and destruction.

51 I wept vehemently over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

52 My enemies have hunted me like a bird, without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in a pit; they cast stones at me.

54 Water flowed over my head; then I said, I am cast far off.

55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the depths of the pit.

56 Thou didst hear my voice; turn not thine ear to my cry; but relieve me and save me.

57 Thou didst draw near in the day when I called upon thee; thou didst say, Fear not.

58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded my cause; thou hast saved my life.

59 O LORD, thou hast seen my affliction; thou hast judged my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and their devices against me,

62 The lips of those who rose up against me and their devices against me all day long.

63 Behold their conduct and their behavior I do understand, because of their devices.

64 Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart; let thy affliction pursue them.

66 Destroy them in thine anger from under thy heavens, O LORD.