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Lamentations 3:11

New American Bible - revised edition

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

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But now he has exhausted me; you have stunned all my companions.

My spirit is faint within me; my heart despairs.

“Now understand this, you who forget God, lest I start ripping apart and there be no rescuer.

Her gates will lament and mourn, as the city sits desolate on the ground.

Four kinds of scourge I have decreed against them—oracle of the Lord—the sword to kill them; dogs to drag them off; the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy them.

I will make this city a waste and an object of hissing. Because of all its wounds, every passerby will be horrified and hiss.

Fields shall be purchased in this land, about which you say, “It is a wasteland, without human beings or animals, handed over to the Chaldeans.”

Therefore, lions from the forest slay them, wolves of the desert ravage them, Leopards keep watch round their cities: all who come out are torn to pieces, For their crimes are many, their rebellions numerous.

Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will be estranged from you, And I will turn you into a wilderness, a land where no one dwells.

From on high he hurled fire down into my very bones; He spread out a net for my feet, and turned me back. He has left me desolate, in misery all day long.

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

He answered me thus: “The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, different from all the others; The whole earth it shall devour, trample down and crush.

“Come, let us return to the Lord, For it is he who has torn, but he will heal us; he has struck down, but he will bind our wounds.

Your hand shall be lifted above your foes, and all your enemies shall be cut down.

Behold, your house will be abandoned, desolate.

They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning: “Alas, alas, great city, in which all who had ships at sea grew rich from her wealth. In one hour she has been ruined.




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