(Gimel) Be kind to your servant! Then I will live and keep your instructions.

(Gimel) Judah has departed into exile under affliction and harsh oppression. She lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in narrow straits.

(Gimel) In fierce anger he destroyed the whole army of Israel. He withdrew his right hand as the enemy attacked. He was like a raging fire in the land of Jacob; it consumed everything around it.

(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert.