Lamentations 3:40-47

40Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!

41Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

42"We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.

43"You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;

44you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

45You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.

46"All our enemies open their mouths against us;

47panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;