Her adversaries were for head, her enemies were secure; for Jehovah afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children went into captivity before the face of him pressing.

From the daughter of Zion all her decoration went forth: her chiefs were as rams; they found not feed, and they went without strength before him pursuing.

From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.

(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.

By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

"My portion is the Lord," I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.

(Tet) The Lord is good to those who trust in him, to the one who seeks him.

O how good is it, for a man, to take the yoke upon him from his youth up?

(Yod) Let a person sit alone in silence, when the Lord is disciplining him.

Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults.

Wherefore then murmureth the living man, let him murmur at his own sin.

The LORD's anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. About him we had said, "Under his protection we will survive among the nations."