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Lamentations 3:4-13 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

4. God caused my skin and fleshto waste away,and he crushed my bones.

5. He attacked and surrounded mewith hardships and trouble;

6. he forced me to sit in the darklike someone long dead.

7. God built a fence around methat I cannot climb over,and he chained me down.

8. Even when I shoutedand prayed for help,he refused to listen.

9. God put big rocks in my wayand made me followa crooked path.

10. God was like a bear or a lionwaiting in ambush for me;

11. he dragged me from the road,then tore me to shreds.

12. God took careful aimand shot his arrows

13. straight through my heart.

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