God

Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.

Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like water, before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.

Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with: shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the ground: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.

Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival, those that should terrify me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of the Lord that escaped and was left: those that I brought up, and nourished, my enemy hath consumed them.

Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.

Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day.

Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones.

Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.

Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.

Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows.

He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.

He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.

Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes.

Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord.

Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.