Lamentations 3:40-54

40Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord.

41Let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven and say,

42“We have sinned and rebelled, and you have not forgiven us.

43“You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down, and slaughtered us without mercy.

44You have hidden yourself in a cloud so our prayers cannot reach you.

45You have discarded us as refuse and garbage among the nations.

46“All our enemies have spoken out against us.

47We are filled with fear, for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined.”

48Tears stream from my eyes because of the destruction of my people!

49My tears flow endlessly; they will not stop

50until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.

51My heart is breaking over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.

52My enemies, whom I have never harmed, hunted me down like a bird.

53They threw me into a pit and dropped stones on me.

54The water rose over my head, and I cried out, “This is the end!”