Lamentations 3:55-66

55I called on Your name, O Lord, Out of the lowest pit.

56You have heard my voice, “Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help.”

57You drew near on the day I called to You; You said, “Do not fear.”

58O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause [You have guided my way and protected me]; You have rescued and redeemed my life.

59O Lord, You have seen the wrong [done to me]; Judge my case.

60You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.

61You have heard their reproach, O Lord, And all their schemes against me.

62The lips and whispering of my assailants Are against me all day long.

63Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels]; I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].

64You will repay them, O Lord, According to the work of their hands.

65You will harden their hearts; Your curse will be upon them.

66You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord.