Lamentations 3:52–66

⁵²They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird. ⁵³They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me. ⁵⁴Waters streamed over my head; I said, I am cut off.

⁵⁵I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit. ⁵⁶Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry. ⁵⁷Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not. ⁵⁸Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life. ⁵⁹Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. ⁶⁰Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me. ⁶¹Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me; ⁶²the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day. ⁶³Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song. ⁶⁴Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands; ⁶⁵give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them; ⁶⁶pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.