19:6 know
and encircled
מ (Mem)
1:13 He sent down fire
into my bones, and it overcame
He spread out a trapper’s net
he made me turn back.
He has made me desolate;
I am faint all day long.
3:2 He drove me into captivity
in darkness and not light.
3:3 He repeatedly
he turns his hand
ב (Bet)
3:4 He has made my mortal skin
he has broken my bones.
3:5 He has besieged
with bitter hardship.
3:6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness
like those who died long ago.
ג (Gimel)
3:7 He has walled me in
he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
3:8 Also, when I cry out desperately
he has shut out my prayer.
3:9 He has blocked
he has made every path impassable.
ד (Dalet)
3:10 To me he is like a bear lying in ambush,
like a hidden lion
3:11 He has obstructed my paths
he has made me desolate.
3:12 He drew
the target for his arrow.
ה (He)
3:13 He shot
into my heart.
3:14 I have become the laughingstock of all people,
their mocking song
3:15 He has given me my fill of bitter herbs
and made me drunk with bitterness.
ו (Vav)
3:16 He ground
he trampled
3:17 I
I have forgotten what happiness
3:18 So I said, “My endurance has expired;
I have lost all hope of deliverance
ז (Zayin)
3:19 Remember
which is a bitter poison.
3:20 I
and I
3:21 But this I call
therefore I have hope:
ח (Khet)
3:22 The Lord’s loyal kindness
his compassions
3:23 They are fresh
your faithfulness is abundant!
3:24 “My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself,
so I will put my hope in him.
ט (Tet)
3:25 The Lord is good to those who trust
to the one
3:26 It is good to wait patiently
for deliverance from the Lord.
3:27 It is good for a man
to bear
י (Yod)
3:28 Let a person
when the Lord
3:29 Let him bury his face in the dust;
perhaps there is hope.
3:30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him;
let him have his fill of insults.
כ (Kaf)
3:31 For the Lord
reject us forever.
3:32 Though he causes us
according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.
3:33 For he is not predisposed to afflict
or to grieve people.
ל (Lamed)
3:34 To crush underfoot
all the earth’s prisoners,
3:35 to deprive a person
in the presence of the Most High,
3:36 to defraud a person in a lawsuit –
the Lord
מ (Mem)
3:37 Whose command was ever fulfilled
unless the Lord
3:38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes –
both calamity and blessing?
3:39 Why should any living person
when punished for his sins?
נ (Nun)
3:40 Let us carefully examine our ways,
and let us return to the Lord.
3:41 Let us lift up our hearts
to God in heaven:
3:42 “We
you
ס (Samek)
3:43 You shrouded yourself
you killed without mercy.
3:44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can get through.
3:45 You make us like filthy scum
in the estimation
פ (Pe)
3:46 All our enemies have gloated over us;
3:47 Panic and pitfall
devastation and destruction.
3:48 Streams
because my people
ע (Ayin)
3:49 Tears flow from my eyes
there will be no break
3:50 until the Lord looks down from heaven
and sees what has happened.
3:51 What my eyes see
all the suffering of the daughters in my city.
צ (Tsade)
3:52 For no good reason
hunted me down
3:53 They shut me
and threw stones at me.
3:54 The waters closed over my head;
I thought
ק (Qof)
3:55 I have called on your name, O Lord,
from the deepest pit.
3:56 You heard
“Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!”
3:57 You came near
you said,
ר (Resh)
3:58 O Lord,
you redeemed my life.
3:59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;
pronounce judgment on my behalf!
3:60 You have seen all their vengeance,
all their plots against me.
ש (Sin/Shin)
3:61 You have heard
all their plots against me.
3:62 My assailants revile and conspire
against me all day long.
3:63 Watch them from morning to evening;
I am the object of their mocking songs.
ת (Tav)
3:64 Pay them back
according to what they
3:65 Give them a distraught heart;
may your curse be on them!
3:66 Pursue them
from under the Lord’s heaven.
7:12 I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying,
I will bring them down like birds in the sky;
I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.
6:13 And do not lead us into temptation,