Parallel Bible results for "lamentations 3:37-66"

Lamentations 3:37-66

Common English Bible CEB

37 Who ever spoke and it happened if my Lord hadn't commanded the same?

38 From the mouth of the Most High evil things don't come, but rather good!

39 Why then does any living person complain; why should anyone complain about their sins?

40 We must search and examine our ways; we must return to the LORD.

41 We should lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven.

42 We are the ones who did wrong; we rebelled. But you, God, have not forgiven.

43 You wrapped yourself up in wrath and hunted us; you killed, showing no compassion.

44 You wrapped yourself up in a cloud; prayers can't make it through!

45 You made us trash and garbage in front of all other people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Terror and trap have come upon us, catastrophe and collapse!

48 Streams of water pour from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 My eyes flow and don't stop. There is no relief

50 until the LORD looks down from the heavens and notices.

51 My eyes hurt me because of what's happened to my city's daughters.

52 My enemies hunted me down like a bird, relentlessly, for no reason.

53 They caught me alive in a pit and threw stones at me;

54 water flowed over my head. I thought: I'm finished.

55 I call on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit.

56 Hear my voice. Don't close your ear to my need for relief, to my cry for help.

57 Come near to me on the day I call to you. Say to me, "Don't be afraid."

58 My Lord! Plead my desperate case; redeem my life.

59 LORD, look at my mistreatment; judge my cause.

60 Look at all of my enemies' vengeance, all of their scheming against me.

61 Hear their jeering, LORD, all of their scheming against me,

62 the speech of those who rise up against me, their incessant gossiping about me.

63 Whether sitting or standing, look at how I am the object of their song of ridicule.

64 Pay them back fully, LORD, according to what they have done.

65 Give them a tortured mind—put your curse on them!

66 Angrily hunt them down; wipe them out from under the LORD's heaven.

New International Version NIV

37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?

38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?

39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:

42 “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.

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;

54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

55 I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit.

56 You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”

57 You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”

58 You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.

59 LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!

60 You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.

61 LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

62 what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.

63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.

64 Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done.

65 Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!

66 Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.