Lamentations 3:49-57 New International Version (NIV)

49. My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,

50. until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.

51. What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.

52. Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.

53. They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;

54. the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

55. I called on your name, Lord, from the depths of the pit.

56. You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”

57. You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”

Lamentations 3