Lamentations 3:40-48

Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

All our enemies open their mouths against us.

Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.