Lamentations 3:40-54

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;

48my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49"My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,

50until the Lord from heaven looks down and sees;

51my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.

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.'