I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and my elders expired in the city while they sought food for them to bring back their life.

Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.

He has made me live in dark places, like the dead of old.

They have cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone at me.

O Lord, You strove for the causes of my soul; You redeemed my life.

They cried to them, Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart! Touch not! Indeed they fled and reeled; they said among the nations, They will not continue to live there.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, In His shadow we shall live among the nations.