Lamentations 3:3-13 Modern English Version (MEV)

3. Surely against me has He turned His handcontinually, the whole day long.

4. My flesh and my skin He has made waste away;He has broken my bones;

5. He has besieged and enveloped mewith gall and travail.

6. He has set me in dark places,like the dead of long ago.

7. He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;He has made my chain heavy.

8. Even when I cry for help,He shuts out my prayer.

9. He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;He has made my paths crooked.

10. He is to me a bear lying in wait,a lion in hiding.

11. He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;He has made me desolate.

12. He has bent His bowand set me as a target for the arrow.

13. He has caused the arrows of His quiverto pierce my inward parts.

Lamentations 3