eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth – just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

They repay me evil for the good I have done; though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me.

you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.

He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

Under the lotus trees it lies, in the secrecy of the reeds and the marsh.

They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow.

I cried out to him for help and praised him with my tongue.

Their enemies oppressed them; they were subject to their authority.

They repay my love with accusations, but I continue to pray.

A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.

So I again considered another futile thing on earth:

His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me.

The Beloved about Her Lover: His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me.

ל (Lamed) To crush underfoot all the earth’s prisoners,