1<\/sup>ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>ZAIN. I will call to mind the past, and my soul shall languish within me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>ZAIN. These recollections are in my heart; therefore, I shall hope.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>HETH. By the mercies of the Lord, we are not consumed. For his compassion has not passed away.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>HETH. I know it at first light; great is your faithfulness.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>HETH. “The Lord is my portion,” said my soul. Because of this, I will wait for him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>TETH. It is good to stand ready in silence for the salvation of God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself.<\/span> <\/p>\n 29<\/sup>JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope.<\/span> <\/p>\n 30<\/sup>JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches.<\/span> <\/p>\n 31<\/sup>CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever.<\/span> <\/p>\n 32<\/sup>CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.<\/span> <\/p>\n 33<\/sup>CAPH. For he has not humiliated from his heart, nor has he thrown aside the sons of men,<\/span> <\/p>\n 34<\/sup>LAMED. as if to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,<\/span> <\/p>\n 35<\/sup>LAMED. as if to turn aside the judgment of a man in the sight of the presence of the Most High,<\/span> <\/p>\n 36<\/sup>LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this.<\/span> <\/p>\n 37<\/sup>MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?<\/span> <\/p>\n 38<\/sup>MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?<\/span> <\/p>\n 39<\/sup>MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?<\/span> <\/p>\n 40<\/sup>NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.<\/span> <\/p>\n 41<\/sup>NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.<\/span> <\/p>\n 42<\/sup>NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.<\/span> <\/p>\n 43<\/sup>SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.<\/span> <\/p>\n 44<\/sup>SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.<\/span> <\/p>\n 45<\/sup>SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.<\/span> <\/p>\n 46<\/sup>PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.<\/span> <\/p>\n 47<\/sup>PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.<\/span> <\/p>\n 48<\/sup>PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.<\/span> <\/p>\n 49<\/sup>AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest<\/span> <\/p>\n 50<\/sup>AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.<\/span> <\/p>\n 51<\/sup>AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.<\/span> <\/p>\n 52<\/sup>SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.<\/span> <\/p>\n 53<\/sup>SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 54<\/sup>SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 55<\/sup>COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.<\/span> <\/p>\n 56<\/sup>COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries.<\/span> <\/p>\n 57<\/sup>COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, “Fear not.”<\/span> <\/p>\n 58<\/sup>RES. You have judged, O Lord, the case of my soul. You are the Redeemer of my life.<\/span> <\/p>\n 59<\/sup>RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case.<\/span> <\/p>\n 60<\/sup>RES. You have seen all their fury, every one of their thoughts is against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 61<\/sup>SIN. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their thoughts are against me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 62<\/sup>SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long.<\/span> <\/p>\n 63<\/sup>SIN. Watch their sitting down and their rising up: I am their psalm.<\/span> <\/p>\n 64<\/sup>THAU. You shall pay a recompense to them, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.<\/span> <\/p>\n 65<\/sup>THAU. You shall give them a heavy shield of the heart: your hardship.<\/span> <\/p>\n 66<\/sup>THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord.<\/span> <\/p>\n