(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children's lives; they are fainting at every street corner.

(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

While I consider these things in my heart, I get a hope again.

You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

Thou hast beheld, O Yahweh, my failure to get justice, Pronounce thou my sentence;

Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.

{Samekh} But they cried unto every man, "Flee the staining! Away, get you hence, touch it not! Yea," say they, "ye must be burnt: ye must dwell among the Gentiles, and bide no longer here."

(Sin/Shin) Rejoice and be glad for now, O people of Edom, who reside in the land of Uz. But the cup of judgment will pass to you also; you will get drunk and take off your clothes.

We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.