Lamentations 3:52–66

⁵²“I have been hunted like a bird

by those who were my enemies without cause;

⁵³they flung me alive into the pit

and cast stones on me;

⁵⁴water closed over my head;

I said, ‘I am lost.’

⁵⁵“I called on thy name, O Lord,

from the depths of the pit;

⁵⁶thou didst hear my plea, ‘Do not close

thine ear to my cry for help!’

⁵⁷Thou didst come near when I called on thee;

thou didst say, ‘Do not fear!’

⁵⁸“Thou hast taken up my cause, O Lord,

thou hast redeemed my life.

⁵⁹Thou hast seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;

judge thou my cause.

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

⁶¹“Thou hast heard their taunts, O Lord,

all their devices against me.

⁶²The lips and thoughts of my assailants

are against me all the day long.

⁶³Behold their sitting and their rising;

I am the burden of their songs.

⁶⁴“Thou wilt requite them, O Lord,

according to the work of their hands.

⁶⁵Thou wilt give them dullness of heart;

thy curse will be on them.

⁶⁶Thou wilt pursue them in anger and destroy them

from under thy heavens, O Lord.”