Lamentations 3:16-19 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

16. He has made me eat gravel,trampled me into the dust;

17. My life is deprived of peace,I have forgotten what happiness is;

18. My enduring hope, I said,has perished before the Lord.

19. The thought of my wretched homelessnessis wormwood and poison;

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