Lamentations 3:6-15 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

6. He has left me to dwell in dark placeslike those long dead.

7. He has hemmed me in with no escape,weighed me down with chains;

8. Even when I cry for help,he stops my prayer;

9. He has hemmed in my ways with fitted stones,and made my paths crooked.

10. He has been a bear lying in wait for me,a lion in hiding!

11. He turned me aside and tore me apart,leaving me ravaged.

12. He bent his bow, and set me upas a target for his arrow.

13. He pierced my kidneyswith shafts from his quiver.

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.

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