Lamentations 3:52-66

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⁵² My enemies had no reason to follow me.
But they caught me as they would catch a bird.
⁵³ They put me alive into the well,
and they threw stones down on me.
⁵⁴ The water covered my head.
Then I said, ‘I will soon die.’
⁵⁵ I shouted your name, Lord,
when I was in the well.
⁵⁶ ‘Please listen to me, Lord,’ I shouted.
‘Help me! Save me!’ I shouted,
and you heard me.
⁵⁷ You came near to me when I prayed to you.
‘Do not be afraid,’ you said.
⁵⁸ Lord, you have given me help.
You have paid the price to keep me alive.
⁵⁹ You saw the bad things that they did to me.
So please agree with me that they were not fair!
⁶⁰ You know all the bad things that they did to me.
And you know about all the bad things that they want to do to me.
⁶¹ You have heard their cruel words against me, Lord.
Yes, you know about all the bad things that they want to do to me.
⁶² These people have been cruel to me.
They attack me with cruel words every hour of the day.
⁶³ Look at them as they sing cruel things about me.
They sing when they are sitting, and they sing when they are standing.
⁶⁴ Punish them for what they have done, Lord.
⁶⁵ Cause them to think that they cannot hope for anything good.
Cause bad things to happen to them.
⁶⁶ Run after them angrily.
Kill them all because you are angry with them.
Let nobody on earth remember them any longer.