<p class="poetry">Let him bury his face in the dust;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">perhaps there is hope.p>

<p class="poetry">Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">let him have his fill of insults.p>

<p class="poetry">Give them a distraught heart;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">may your curse be on them!p>

<p class="poetry">We have submitted<n id="1" /> to Egypt and Assyriap> <p class="poetry">in order to buy food to eat.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1499; (<i>Kafi>)p> <p class="poetry">All her people groanedp> <p class="poetry">as they searched for a morsel of bread.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They exchanged<n id="2" /> their valuables<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="4" /> just enough foodp> <p class="poetry">to stay alive.<n id="5" />p><t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Look, O <sc>Lordsc>! Consider<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">that I have become worthless!&#8221;p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1502; (<i>Memi>)p> <p class="poetry">He sent down fire<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">into my bones, and it overcame<n id="2" /> them.p> <p class="poetry">He spread out a trapper&#8217;s net<n id="3" /> for my feet;p> <p class="poetry">he made me turn back.p> <p class="poetry">He has made me desolate;p> <p class="poetry">I am faint all day long.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1504; (<i>Nuni>)p> <p class="poetry">My sins are bound around my neck like a yoke;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they are fastened together by his hand.p> <p class="poetry">He has placed his yoke<n id="2" /> on my neck;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he has sapped my strength.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">The Lord<n id="5" /> has handed me over<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">to those whom I cannot resist.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1494; (<i>Zayini>)p> <p class="poetry">The Lord<n id="1" /> rejected<n id="2" /> his altarp> <p class="poetry">and abhorred his temple.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He handed over to the enemy<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">her palace walls;p> <p class="poetry">the enemy<n id="5" /> shouted<n id="6" /> in the <sc>Lord&#8217;ssc> templep> <p class="poetry">as if it were a feast day.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew"><b>&#1510;b> (<i>Tsadei>)p> <p class="poetry">Cry out<n id="1" /> from your heart<n id="2" /> to the Lord,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">O wall of Daughter Zion!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Make your tears flow like a riverp> <p class="poetry">all day and all night long!<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not rest;p> <p class="poetry">do not let your tears<n id="6" /> stop!p>