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LAMENTATIONS
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- If so be there may be hope.
- 30Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him,
- Let him be filled full with reproach.
- כ
- 31For the Lord will not cast off
- For ever.
- 32For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion
- According to the multitude of His mercies.
- 33For He doth not afflict willingly,
- Nor grieve the children of men.
- ל
- 34To crush under foot
- All the prisoners of the earth,
- 35To turn aside the right of a man
- Before the face of the Most High,
- 36To subvert a man in his cause,
- The Lord approveth not.
- מ
- 37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass,
- When the Lord commandeth it not?
- 38Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not
- Evil and good?
- 39Wherefore doth a living man complain,
- A strong man because of his sins?
- נ
- 40Let us search and try our ways,
- And return to the Lord.
- 41Let us lift up our heart with our hands
- Unto God in the heavens.
- 42We have transgressed and have rebelled;
- Thou hast not pardoned.
- ס
- 43Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us;
- Thou hast slain unsparingly.
- 44Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud,
- So that no prayer can pass through.
- 45Thou hast made us as the off-scouring and refuse
- In the midst of the peoples.
- פ
- 46All our enemies have opened their mouth
- Wide against us.
- 47Terror and the pit are come upon us,
- Desolation and destruction.
- 48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water,
- For the breach of the daughter of my people.
- ע
- 49Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not,
- Without any intermission,
- 50Till the Lord look forth,
- And behold from heaven.
- 51Mine eye affected my soul,
- Because of all the daughters of my city.
- צ
- 52They have chased me sore like a bird,
- That are mine enemies without cause.
- 53They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
- And have cast stones upon me.
- 54Waters flowed over my head;
- I said: 'I am cut off.'
- ק
- 55I called upon Thy name, O Lord,
- Out of the lowest dungeon.
- 56Thou heardest my voice; hide not
- Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
- 57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee;
- Thou saidst: 'Fear not.'
- ר
- 58Lord, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul;
- Thou hast redeemed my life.
- 59O Lord, Thou hast been my wrong;
- Judge Thou my cause.
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