Lamentations 3:52-66 ▼

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.