Lamentations 3:5-19

5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

6He made me dwell in dark places like those long dead.

7He has walled me in so I cannot get out. He made my chain heavy.

8Even when I cry out and call for help, He shuts out my prayer.

9He walled in my ways with hewn stone. He twisted my paths.

10He is a lurking bear to me, a lion in hiding.

11He turned aside my paths and tore me to pieces. He has made me desolate.

12He bent His bow and made me the target for His arrow.

13He shot into my kidneys arrows from His quiver.

14I have become a laughing stock to all my people, their song all day long.

15He has filled me with bitterness and made me drink wormwood.

16He broke my teeth with gravel. He made me wallow in ashes.

17My soul has been deprived of shalom, I have forgotten goodness.

18So I said, “My endurance has perished, and my hope from Adonai.”

19Remember my affliction my homelessness, bitterness and gall.