Lamentations 3:43-54

New International Version

⁴³ “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued^(A) us;
    you have slain without pity.^(B)
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud^(C)
    so that no prayer^(D) can get through.^(E)
45 You have made us scum^(F) and refuse
    among the nations.

⁴⁶ “All our enemies have opened their mouths
    wide^(G) against us.^(H)
47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls,^(I)
    ruin and destruction.^(J)”
⁴⁸ Streams of tears^(K) flow from my eyes^(L)
    because my people are destroyed.^(M)

⁴⁹ My eyes will flow unceasingly,
    without relief,^(N)
50 until the Lord looks down
    from heaven and sees.^(O)
51 What I see brings grief to my soul
    because of all the women of my city.

⁵² Those who were my enemies without cause
    hunted me like a bird.^(P)
53 They tried to end my life in a pit^(Q)
    and threw stones at me;
⁵⁴ the waters closed over my head,^(R)
    and I thought I was about to perish.^(S)