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