New American Bible, Revised Edition

Lamentations 3:10-19 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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.

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;