Lamentations 3:5-19

5He hath besieged me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

6He hath set me in dark places, as they that are dead of old.

7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

10He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.1

14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.2

16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.3

17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.4

18And I said, My strength and my hope hath perished from the LORD:

19Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.5