Lamentations 3:8

New American Bible - revised edition

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

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If I cry out “Violence!” I am not answered. I shout for help, but there is no justice.

I cry to you, but you do not answer me; I stand, but you take no notice.

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why so far from my call for help, from my cries of anguish?

O God, restore us; light up your face and we shall be saved.

You wrapped yourself in wrath and pursued us, killing without pity;

You wrapped yourself in a cloud, which no prayer could pierce.

How long, O Lord, must I cry for help and you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” and you do not intervene?

And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.