Lamentations 3:52-66 ▼

52 “I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;

53 they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;

54 water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’

55 “I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;

56 you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’

57 You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear!’

58 “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.

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

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

61 “You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.

62 The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.

63 Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.

64 “You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them.

66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD.”