<p class="poetry">When people are brought low<n id="1" /> and you sayp> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Lift them up!&#8217;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">then he will save the downcast;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall<n id="2" /> at once.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Alas, what a terrible time of trouble it is!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">There has never been any like it.p> <p class="poetry">It is a time of trouble for the descendants of Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">but some of them will be rescued out of it.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="lamhebrew">&#1506; (<i>Ayini>)p> <p class="poetry">Our eyes continually failed usp> <p class="poetry">as we looked in vain for help.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">From our watchtowers we watchedp> <p class="poetry">for a nation that could not rescue us.p>