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Ekhah 3:46-55 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

46. Kol oyveinu (all our enemies) have opened their mouths against us.

47. Pachad (terror) and a snare is come upon us, ruin and destruction.

48. Mine eye runneth down with streams of mayim for the destruction of Bat Ami.

49. Mine eye will flow down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission

50. Till Hashem look down, and behold from Shomayim.

51. Mine eye affecteth mine nefesh because of all the banot of my city.

52. Mine enemies hunted me down, like a tzippor (bird), without cause.

53. They have cut off my life in the bor (pit) and cast an even (stone) upon me.

54. Mayim flowed over mine rosh; then I said, I am cut off.

55. I called upon Thy Shem, Hashem, out of the lowest pit.

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