Parallel Bible results for "Lamentations 3:43-53"

Lamentations 3:43-53

New Living Translation NLT

43 “You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down, and slaughtered us without mercy.

44 You have hidden yourself in a cloud so our prayers cannot reach you.

45 You have discarded us as refuse and garbage among the nations.

46 “All our enemies have spoken out against us.

47 We are filled with fear, for we are trapped, devastated, and ruined.”

48 Tears stream from my eyes because of the destruction of my people!

49 My tears flow endlessly; they will not stop

50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

51 My heart is breaking over the fate of all the women of Jerusalem.

52 My enemies, whom I have never harmed, hunted me down like a bird.

53 They threw me into a pit and dropped stones on me.

New International Version NIV

43 “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.

44 You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

46 “All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.

47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”

48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.

49 My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,

50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

51 What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.

52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.

53 They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;