Lamentations 3:40-54

40Let us test and examine our ways, And let us return to the Lord.

41Let us lift up our hearts and our hands [in prayer] Toward God in heaven;

42We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned.

43You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain [without pity] and have not spared.

44You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.

45You have made us scum and refuse Among the peoples (Gentile nations).

46All our enemies have gaped at us.

47Panic and pitfall (traps, danger) have come on us, Devastation and destruction.

48My eyes overflow with streams of tears Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people (Jerusalem).

49My eyes overflow unceasingly, Without stopping,

50Until the Lord looks down And sees from heaven.

51My eyes [see things that] bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

52Without cause my enemies Hunted me down like a bird;

53They silenced me in the pit And placed a stone over me.

54The waters ran down on my head; I said, “I am cut off (destroyed)!”