{Aleph} Alas, how sitteth the city so desolate, that some time was full of people? How is she become like a widow, which was the lady of all nations? How is she brought under tribute, that ruled all lands?

{Lamed} To tread all the prisoners of the earth under his feet.

Persecute them, O LORD, with thine indignation, and root them out from under the heaven.

{Res} The very breath of our mouth, even the anointed LORD himself, shall be taken in our sins; of whom we say, "Under his shadow we shall be preserved among the Heathen."

Our necks are under persecution, we are weary, and have no rest.

The elders sit no more under the gates, and the young men use no more the playing of Music.