O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don&#8217;t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But Lot said to them, &#8220;No, please, Lord!<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">The one enthroned<n id="1" /> in heaven laughs in disgust;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the Lord taunts<n id="3" /> them.p>

<p class="poetry">A whole generation<n id="1" /> will serve him;p> <p class="poetry">they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Rouse yourself, wake up<n id="1" /> and vindicate me!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">My God and Lord, defend my just cause!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Hurry and help me,<n id="1" /> O Lord, my deliverer!p>

<p class="poetry">They are like a dream after one wakes up.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">O Lord, when you awake<n id="2" /> you will despise them.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But then the Lord awoke from his sleep;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he was like a warrior in a drunken rage.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">None can compare to you among the gods, O Lord!p> <p class="poetry">Your exploits are incomparable!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I yearn for the Lord,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">more than watchmen do for the morning,p> <p class="poetry">yes, more than watchmen do for the morning.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Zion said, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has abandoned me,p> <p class="poetry">the sovereign master<n id="1" /> has forgotten me.&#8217;p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1499; (<i>Kafi>)p> <p class="poetry">For the Lord<n id="1" /> will notp> <p class="poetry">reject us forever.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">to defraud a person in a lawsuit &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the Lord<n id="1" /> does not approve<n id="2" /> of such things!p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1512; (<i>Reshi>)p> <p class="poetry">O Lord,<n id="1" /> you championed<n id="2" /> my cause,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you redeemed my life.p>

And you didn&#8217;t stop there, O <sc>Lordsc> God! You have also spoken about the future of your servant&#8217;s family.<n id="1" /> Is this your usual way of dealing with men,<n id="2" /> O <sc>Lordsc> God?

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1505; (<i>Sameki>)p> <p class="poetry">He rounded up<n id="1" /> all my mighty ones;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The Lord<n id="3" /> did this<n id="4" /> in<n id="5" /> my midst.p> <p class="poetry">He summoned an assembly<n id="6" /> against mep> <p class="poetry">to shatter my young men.p> <p class="poetry">The Lord has stomped like grapes<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">the virgin daughter, Judah.<n id="8" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Therefore, this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Because you have spoken false words and forecast delusion, look,<n id="1" /> I am against you,<n id="2" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> showed me this: I saw<n id="1" /> the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> summoning a shower of fire.<n id="2" /> It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Listen, all you nations!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Pay attention, all inhabitants of earth!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> will testify<n id="3" /> against you;p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> will accuse you<n id="4" /> from his majestic palace.<n id="5" />p>

But<n id="1" /> Abram<n id="2" /> said, &#8220;O sovereign <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="3" /> by what<n id="4" /> can I know that I am to possess it?&#8221;p>