{Yod} The enemy hath put his hand to all the precious things that she had, yea even before her eyes came the Heathen in and out of the Sanctuary: whom thou, nevertheless, hast forbidden to come within thy congregation.

{Shin} They hear my mourning, but there is none that will comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble, and are glad thereof, because thou hast done it. But thou shalt bring forth the time, when they also shall be like unto me.

{Tav} From thee shall come all their adversity: thou shalt pluck them away, even as thou hast plucked me, because of all my wickedness. For my sorrow is very great, and my heart is heavy.

{Mem} What shall I say of thee, O thou daughter Jerusalem? To whom shall I liken thee? To whom shall I compare thee, O thou daughter Zion, to comfort thee withal? Thy hurt is like a main sea: who may heal thee?

{Tsadi} Let thine heart cry unto the LORD, O thou city of the daughter Zion; let thy tears run down like a river day and night. Rest not, and let not the apple of thine eye leave off.

{ Res} Behold, O LORD, and consider: why hast thou gathered me up so clean? Shall the women then eat their own fruit; even children of a span long? Shall the priests and prophets be slain thus in the Sanctuary of the LORD?

{Shin} Young and old lie behind the streets, upon the ground; my maidens and young men are slain with the sword: whom thou in the day of thy wrathful indignation hast put to death. Yea, even thou hast put them to death, and not spared them.

{Tav} My neighbours that are round about me hast thou called, as it were to a feast day: so that in the day of the LORD's wrath none escaped, neither was any left behind. Those that I had brought up and nourished, hath mine enemy destroyed.

Yea, thou shalt remember them, for my soul melteth away in me.

We have been dissemblers, and have offended; will thou therefore not be intreated?

{Samekh} Thou hast covered us in thy wrath, and persecuted us, thou hast slain us, without any favour.

Thou hast hid thyself in a cloud, that our prayer should not go through.

Thou hast made us outcasts, and to be despised among the Heathen.

O LORD, when will thou look down from heaven, and consider?

Thou hast heard my voice, and hast not turned away thine ears from my sighing and crying.

Thou hast inclined thyself unto me, when I called upon thee, and haste said, "Fear not."

{Res} Thou, O LORD, hast maintained the cause of my soul, and hast redeemed my life.

O LORD, thou hast seen my blasphemers; take thou my cause upon thee.

Thou hast well considered how they go about to do me harm, and that all their counsels are against me.

{Shin} Thou hast heard their despiteful words, O LORD; yea, and all their imaginations against me.

Thou seest also their sitting down and their rising up. They make their songs of nothing but me.

{Khet} But now their faces are very black: Insomuch, that thou shouldest not know them in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; It is withered, and become like a dry stock.

{Shin} And thou, O daughter Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz, be glad and rejoice: for the cup shall come unto thee also, which when thou suppest of thou shalt be drunk.

{Tav} Thy sin is well punished, O thou daughter Zion: he shall not suffer thee to be carried away anymore. But thy wickedness, O daughter Edom, shall he visit, and for thy sins' sake, he shall lead thee into captivity.

But thou, O LORD, that remainest for evermore, and thy seat, world without end:

Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us so long?

O LORD, turn thou us unto thee: and so shall we be turned. Renew our days as in old time,

for thou hast now banished us long enough, and hast been sore displeased at us.