Lamentations 3:52-66 ▼

52 Those who were my enemies without cause have hunted me like a bird;

53 they flung me alive into a pit and hurled 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, but give me relief!”

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 malice, all their plots against me.

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

62 The whispers and murmurs of my assailants are against me all day long.

63 Whether they sit or rise—see, I am the object of their taunt-songs.

64 Pay them back for their deeds, O LORD, according to the work of their hands!

65 Give them anguish of heart; your curse be on them!

66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the LORD’s heavens.