<t /><p class="poetry">My enemies,<n id="1" /> do not gloat<n id="2" /> over me!p> <p class="poetry">Though I have fallen, I will get up.p> <p class="poetry">Though I sit in darkness, the <sc>Lordsc> will be my light.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">I am depressed!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="2" /> it is as if the summer fruit has been gathered,p> <p class="poetry">and the grapes have been harvested.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">There is no grape cluster to eat,p> <p class="poetry">no fresh figs that I crave so much.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">In that day people will sing this taunt song to you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they will mock you with this lament:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;We are completely destroyed;p> <p class="poetry">they sell off<n id="2" /> the property of my people.p> <p class="poetry">How they remove it from me!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They assign our fields to the conqueror.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry"><v id="(5:1)" /> As for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">seemingly insignificant<n id="2" /> among the clans of Judah &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">from you a king will emerge who will rule over Israel on my behalf,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">one whose origins<n id="4" /> are in the distant past.<n id="5" />p>