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Lamentations 3:43-53 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

43. SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.

44. SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.

45. SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.

46. PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.

47. PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.

48. PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.

49. AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest

50. AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.

51. AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.

52. SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.

53. SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.

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