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| 1. | Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. |
| 2. | Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. |
| 3. | Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day. |
| 4. | Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones. |
| 5. | Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour. |
| 6. | Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. |
| 7. | Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. |
| 8. | Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. |
| 9. | Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. |
| 10. | Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places. |
| 11. | Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate. |
| 12. | Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows. |
| 13. | He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver. |
| 14. | He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long. |
| 15. | He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. |
| 16. | Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes. |
| 17. | Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things. |
| 18. | Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. |
| 19. | Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall. |
| 20. | Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me. |
| 21. | Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope. |
| 22. | Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. |
| 23. | Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. |
| 24. | Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him. |
| 25. | Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. |
| 26. | Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God. |
| 27. | Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth. |
| 28. | Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. |
| 29. | Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. |
| 30. | Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches. |
| 31. | Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever. |
| 32. | Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. |
| 33. | Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men. |
| 34. | Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, |
| 35. | Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High, |
| 36. | Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved. |
| 37. | Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not? |
| 38. | Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest? |
| 39. | Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? |
| 40. | Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord. |
| 41. | Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens. |
| 42. | Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. |
| 43. | Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared. |
| 44. | Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through. |
| 45. | Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people. |
| 46. | Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. |
| 47. | Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction. |
| 48. | Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 49. | Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest: |
| 50. | Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens. |
| 51. | Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52. | Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause. |
| 53. | Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. |
| 54. | Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off. |
| 55. | Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit. |
| 56. | Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries. |
| 57. | Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not. |
| 58. | Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life. |
| 59. | Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment. |
| 60. | Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me. |
| 61. | Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me. |
| 62. | Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day. |
| 63. | Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song. |
| 64. | Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. |
| 65. | Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. |
| 66. | Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord. |