Lamentations 3:40-54

40Let us examine and test our ways, and let us return to Adonai.

41Let us lift up our heart and hands to God in heaven.

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

43You covered Yourself with anger and pursued us. You have slain without pity.

44You shrouded Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

45You have made us scum and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

46All our enemies opened their mouth wide against us.

47Panic and pitfall have befallen us, devastation and destruction.

48Streams of tears run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49My eye flows unceasingly, without stopping,

50until Adonai looks down from heaven and sees.

51My eye torments my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

52For no reason, my enemies hunted me down like a bird.

53They cut off my life in the Pit, and cast stones upon me.

54Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I have been cut off!”