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Lamentations 3:14-22 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

14. I have become a laughingstock to all my people,their taunt all day long;

15. He has sated me with bitterness,filled me with wormwood.

16. He has made me eat gravel,trampled me into the dust;

17. My life is deprived of peace,I have forgotten what happiness is;

18. My enduring hope, I said,has perished before the Lord.

19. The thought of my wretched homelessnessis wormwood and poison;

20. Remembering it over and over,my soul is downcast.

21. But this I will call to mind;therefore I will hope:

22. The Lord’s acts of mercy are not exhausted,his compassion is not spent;

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