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Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,

Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.

Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?

Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.

Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.

Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.

Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit.

Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.

Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.

Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

Caph. The Lord hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger: and he hath kindled a fire in Sion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

Phe. The face of the Lord hath divided them, he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, neither had they pity on the ancient.

Res. The breath of our mouth, Christ the Lord, is taken in our sins: to whom we said: Under thy shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

Thau. Thy iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Sion, he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he hath visited thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he hath discovered thy sins.