Lamentations 3:52-66 ▼

52 Hunting, they hunted me as a bird, mine enemies, gratuitously.

53 They cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone upon me.

54 Waters were spread over my head; I said I was cut off.

55 I called thy name, O Jehovah, in the pit underneath.

56 Thou heardest my voice: thou wilt not hide thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 Thou drewest near in the day I shall call thee: thou saidst, Thou shalt not fear.

58 Thou didst contend, O Jehovah, the contentions of my soul; thou didst redeem my life.

59 Thou sawest, O Jehovah, my bowing down: judge thou my judgment.

60 Thou sawest all their vengeance, all their purposes against me.

61 Thou heardest their reproach, O Jehovah, all their purposes against me.

62 The lips of those rising up, and their devices against me all the day.

63 Their sitting and their rising, look thou: I their song.

64 Thou wilt turn back to them a retribution, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

65 Thou wilt give to them a covering of heart, thy curse to them.

66 Thou wilt pursue in thine anger, and thou wilt destroy them from under the heavens, O Jehovah.