Lamentations 3:40-54

40Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord;

41Let us lift our hearts and hands To God in heaven.

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

43You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.

44You have covered Yourself with a cloud, That prayer should not pass through.

45You have made us an offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

46All our enemies Have opened their mouths against us.

47Fear and a snare have come upon us, Desolation and destruction.

48My eyes overflow with rivers of water For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49My eyes flow and do not cease, Without interruption,

50Till the Lord from heaven Looks down and sees.

51My eyes bring suffering to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

52My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird.

53They silenced my life in the pit And threw stones at me.

54The waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off!”