5:20 Why do you keep on forgetting
Why do you forsake us so long?
3:44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud
so that no prayer can get through.
3:18 So I said, “My endurance has expired;
I have lost all hope of deliverance
נ (Nun)
4:14 They
defiled by the blood they shed,
while no one dares
to touch their garments.
ג (Gimel)
3:7 He has walled me in
he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
צ (Tsade)
4:18 Our enemies
so that we could not walk about in our streets.
Our end drew near, our days were numbered,
for our end had come!
ס (Samek)
4:15 People cry to them, “Turn away! You are unclean!
Turn away! Turn away! Don’t touch us!”
So they have fled and wander about;
but the nations say,
נ (Nun)
2:14 Your prophets saw visions for you
that were worthless lies.
They failed to expose your sin
so as to restore your fortunes.
They saw oracles for you
that were worthless
ח (Khet)
1:8 Jerusalem committed terrible sin;
therefore she became an object of scorn.
All who admired
because they have seen her nakedness.
She groans aloud
and turns away in shame.
3:29 Let him bury his face in the dust;
perhaps there is hope.
ת (Tav)
2:22 As if it were a feast day, you call
enemies
On the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has finished off
those healthy infants whom I bore
3:24 “My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself,
so I will put my hope in him.
3:26 It is good to wait patiently
for deliverance from the Lord.
3:32 Though he causes us
according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.
5:6 We have submitted
in order to buy food to eat.
5:21 Bring us back to yourself, O Lord, so that we may return
renew our life
ש (Sin/Shin)
1:21 They have heard
yet there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
they are glad that you
Bring about
so that
מ (Mem)
2:13 With what can I equate
To what can I compare you, O Daughter Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you
so that
Your wound is as deep
Who can heal you?
ו (Vav)
1:6 All of Daughter Zion’s
has departed.
Her leaders became like deer;
they found no pasture,
so they were too exhausted to escape
from the hunter.
א (Alef)
1:1
now sits all alone!
The prominent
has become a widow!
The princess
has become