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.