| 1 Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation. | |
| 2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light. | |
| 3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his hand all the day. | |
| 4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my bones. | |
| 5 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with gall and labour. | |
| 6 Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for ever. | |
| 7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. | |
| 8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. | |
| 9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. | |
| 10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places. | |
| 11 Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate. | |
| 12 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows. | |
| 13 He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver. | |
| 14 He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long. | |
| 15 He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. | |
| 16 Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes. | |
| 17 Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things. | |
| 18 Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. | |
| 19 Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood, and the gall. | |
| 20 Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me. | |
| 21 Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope. | |
| 22 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. | |
| 23 Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. | |
| 24 Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him. | |
| 25 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. | |
| 26 Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God. | |
| 27 Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth. | |
| 28 Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. | |
| 29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. | |
| 30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches. | |
| 31 Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever. | |
| 32 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. | |
| 33 Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men. | |
| 34 Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, | |
| 35 Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High, | |
| 36 Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved. | |
| 37 Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not? | |
| 38 Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest? | |
| 39 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? | |
| 40 Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord. | |
| 41 Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens. | |
| 42 Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. | |
| 43 Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared. | |
| 44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through. | |
| 45 Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people. | |
| 46 Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. | |
| 47 Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction. | |
| 48 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. | |
| 49 Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest: | |
| 50 Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens. | |
| 51 Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city. | |
| 52 Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause. | |
| 53 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. | |
| 54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off. | |
| 55 Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit. | |
| 56 Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries. | |
| 57 Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not. | |
| 58 Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life. | |
| 59 Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment. | |
| 60 Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me. | |
| 61 Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me. | |
| 62 Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day. | |
| 63 Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song. | |
| 64 Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. | |
| 65 Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. | |
| 66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord. | |
