New International Version

Lamentations 3:14-19 New International Version (NIV)

14. I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

15. He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.

16. He has broken my teeth with gravel; he has trampled me in the dust.

17. I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

18. So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”

19. I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.