{Tet} Her skirts are defiled, she remembered not what would follow: therefore is her fall so great, and there is no man to comfort her. O LORD, consider my trouble, for my enemy hath the upper hand.

{Shin} Young and old lie behind the streets, upon the ground; my maidens and young men are slain with the sword: whom thou in the day of thy wrathful indignation hast put to death. Yea, even thou hast put them to death, and not spared them.

{Beth} My flesh and my skin hath he made old, my bones hath he bruised.

{Lamed} Neither the kings of the earth, nor all the inhabiters of the world, would have believed that the enemy and adversary should have come in at the gates of the city of Jerusalem.

{Nun} So that these blind men went stumbling in the streets, and stained themselves with blood, which else would touch no bloody cloth.

The princes are hanged up with the hand of the enemies; they have not spared the old sage men;

Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us so long?

O LORD, turn thou us unto thee: and so shall we be turned. Renew our days as in old time,