Lamentations 3:43–66
43 You have covered yourself ⌊in anger⌋k and pursued us,
you have slain and not shown mercy.
44 You have covered yourself in a cloud
⌊so that prayer cannot pass through⌋.l
45 You have made us scum and refuse
in the midst of the nations.
have opened their mouth against us.
47 Fear and a pit have come upon us,
desolation and destruction.
48 Channels of water run down my eyes
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eyes have poured down unceasingly
without respite,
and sees from heaven.
because of all the daughters of my city.
52 My enemies hunt me without cause,
like a bird.
53 ⌊They have silenced me in a pit⌋,m
they have thrown a stone at me.
54 Water has flown over my head,
I said, “I am cut off.”
55 I have called your name, O Yahweh,
from the depths of the pit.
56 You have heard my cry, “Do not shut your ear
to my cry for help, for my relief!”
57 You came near on a day when I called you,
you said, “Do not fear!”
58 O Lord, you have pleaded for ⌊my cause⌋,n
you have redeemed my life.
59 You have seen my injustice, O Yahweh;
judge my case.
60 You have seen all their vengeance,
all their plans against me.
61 You have heard their disgrace, O Yahweh,
all their plans against me.
62 The lips and meditation of my assailants
are against me all day long.
63 Look at their sitting and their standing,
I am their mocking song.
64 Return to them what is deserved, O Yahweh,
according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them a stubborn heart;
curse them!
66 Pursue them ⌊in anger⌋o and destroy them
from under the heavens of Yahweh.