Jeremiah 29:11 New English Translation (NET Bible)

11 For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. 

‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you.

I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.

 

Close to hopeless

 

A tear in the eye of sorrow

Dreams depleted long ago

Uncertainty now leads the way

In a life build on confusion

 

No more strength to borrow

It was drained as we know

There is now a price to pay

In a way drowned in depletion

 

Where did it all go wrong?

Who planned this life for me?

Did I have a hand in it?

Was it just an accident?

 

How now to go on?

If all that I now see

Is darkness leading to a pit?

Where all seems out of hand

 

Hopeless seems the struggle

I’m close to down and out

I don’t see any help near

As my confession is growing

 

Too late now to juggle

Or walk now on the clouds

“My” faith seems disappeared

As love, Himself seems glowing

 

Jan Wienen