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## Lamentations 3:52-58 in Context (Verses 49–61 KJV)
 
 [49 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/49) Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
 
 [50 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/50) Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
 
 [51 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/51) Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.**
 
 [52 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/52) Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
 
 [53 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/53) They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
 
 [54 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/54) Waters flowed over mine head; *then* I said, I am cut off.
 
 [55 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/55) ¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
 
 [56 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/56) Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
 
 [57 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/57) Thou drewest near in the day *that* I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
 
 [58 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/58) O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
 
 [59 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/59) O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
 
 [60 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/60) Thou hast seen all their vengeance *and* all their imaginations against me.
 
 [61 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/61) Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, *and* all their imaginations against me;
 
[Lamentations 2](/kjv/lamentations/2) [Lamentations 4](/kjv/lamentations/4)

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