He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.

O Lord, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!

So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord.

Fear and dread will fall on them; by the greatness of your arm they will be as still as stone until your people pass by, O Lord, until the people whom you have bought pass by.

For her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time,” says the Lord who rules over all.

י (Yod) The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. Jerusalem’s young women stare down at the ground.