<p class="poetry">Then call,<n id="1" /> and I will answer,p> <p class="poetry">or I will speak, and you respond to me.p>

<p class="poetry">You will call<n id="1" /> and I<n id="2" /> &#8211; I will answer you;p> <p class="poetry">you will long for<n id="3" /> the creature you have made.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Call now!<n id="1" /> Is there anyone who will answer you?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">To which of the holy ones<n id="3" /> will you turn?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">If I summoned him, and he answered me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I would not believe<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that he would be listening to my voice &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">If I cry<n id="1" /> to corruption,<n id="2" /> &#8216;You are my father,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and to the worm, &#8216;My Mother,&#8217; or &#8216;My sister,&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">I summon<n id="1" /> my servant, but he does not respond,p> <p class="poetry">even though I implore<n id="2" /> him with my own mouth.p>

<p class="poetry">Will he find delight<n id="1" /> in the Almighty?p> <p class="poetry">Will he call out to God at all times?p>

<p class="poetry">I am<n id="1" /> a laughingstock<n id="2" /> to my friends,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I, who called on God and whom he answered<n id="4" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">a righteous and blameless<n id="5" /> manp> <p class="poetry">is a laughingstock!p>

The first daughter he named Jemimah,<n id="1" /> the second Keziah,<n id="2" /> and the third Keren-Happuch.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Now his sons used to go<n id="1" /> and hold<n id="2" /> a feast in the house of each one in turn,<n id="3" /> and they would send and invite<n id="4" /> their three<n id="5" /> sisters to eat and to drink with them.