Lamentations 3:52–66

⁵²Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

⁵³Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

⁵⁴Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

⁵⁵Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

⁵⁶Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

⁵⁷Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

⁵⁸Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.

⁵⁹Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

⁶⁰Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.

⁶¹Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

⁶²Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

⁶³Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.

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

⁶⁵Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.

⁶⁶Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.