Lamentations 3:52-66 ▼

52 TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,

53 and laid a stone upon me.

54 Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.

55 KOPH. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon.

56 Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication.

57 Thou drewest nigh to my help: in the day wherein I called upon thee thou saidst to me, Fear not.

58 RECHS. O Lord, thou has pleaded the causes of my soul; thou has redeemed my life.

59 Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou hast judged my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, thou hast looked on all their devices against me.

61 CHSEN. Thou hast heard their reproach and all their devices against me;

62 the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day;

63 their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes.

64 Thou wilt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

65 THAU. Thou wilt give them as a covering, the grief of my heart.

66 Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.