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, hath spread forth, her hands, there is none to comfort her, Yahweh, hath given command, respecting Jacob, unto them who surround him - his adversaries, - Jerusalem, hath become as a removed woman, in their midst.

"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."

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.

The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

The LORD is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

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

He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Let him put, in the dust, his mouth, peradventure, there is hope!

He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

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

ר ReshThe Lord’s anointed, the breath of our life,
was captured in their traps.
We had said about him,
“We will live under his protection among the nations.”