C.  Jeremiah's Condition of Need     3:40-54

Lam 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

Lam 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

Lam 3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

Lam 3:43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Lam 3:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

Lam 3:45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

Lam 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Lam 3:47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Lam 3:48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lam 3:49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

Lam 3:50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

Lam 3:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

Lam 3:52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

Lam 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

Lam 3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.