The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her precious things; for she hath seen the nations enter into her sanctuary, concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

They have heard that I sigh: I have no comforter: all mine enemies have heard of my calamity; they are glad that thou hast done it. Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

See, Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this! Shall the women eat their fruit, the infants that they nursed? Shall priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

The child and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, thou hast not spared.

Thou hast called up, as on the day of a set feast, my terrors on every side; and in the day of Jehovah's anger there was none that escaped or remained: those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I have forgotten prosperity.

Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.

Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.

Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee; thou saidst, Fear not.

Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.

Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;

Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.

Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass also unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked.

Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?

Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?