<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Maidens to the Beloved:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Where has your beloved gone,p> <p class="poetry">O most beautiful among women?p> <p class="poetry">Where has your beloved turned?p> <p class="poetry">Tell us,<n id="1" /> that we may seek him with you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;How long will you torment me<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and crush<n id="2" /> me with your words?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Where can I go to escape your spirit?p> <p class="poetry">Where can I flee to escape your presence?<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">How long, <sc>Lordsc>, will you continue to ignore me?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">How long will you pay no attention to me?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">How long must I worry,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and suffer in broad daylight?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">How long will my enemy gloat over me?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;How long until you<n id="1" /> make an end of words?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You must consider,<n id="3" /> and then<n id="4" /> we can talk.p>

<p class="poetry">I called on the name of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Please <sc>Lordsc>, rescue my life!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Cut sharply on the right!p> <p class="poetry">Swing to<n id="1" /> the left,p> <p class="poetry">wherever your edge<n id="2" /> is appointed to strike.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext"><v id="(4:1)" /><n id="1" /> I, Nebuchadnezzar, was relaxing in my home,<n id="2" /> living luxuriously<n id="3" /> in my palace.

returned to his brothers, and said, &#8220;The boy isn&#8217;t there! And I, where can I go?&#8221;

So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;How long do you refuse<n id="1" /> to obey my commandments and my instructions?

But if he does not do it with premeditation,<n id="1" /> but it happens by accident,<n id="2" /> then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

<p class="poetry">How long will you threaten<n id="1" /> a man?p> <p class="poetry">All of you are murderers,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">as dangerous as a leaning wall or an unstable fence.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yes, <sc>Lordsc>! I am indeed your servant;p> <p class="poetry">I am your lowest slave.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You saved me from death.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">How long will you cry out,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Oh, sword of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">how long will it be before you stop killing?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Go back into your sheath!p> <p class="poetry">Stay there and rest!&#8217;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed,<n id="1" /> and the visions of my mind<n id="2" /> were alarming me.

<p class="poetry">How long, <sc>Lordsc>, must I cry for help?p> <p class="poetry">But you do not listen!p> <p class="poetry">I call out to you, &#8220;Violence!&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">But you do not intervene!<n id="1" />p>

I asked the messenger who was speaking to me, &#8220;Where are they taking the basket?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;How long will this people despise<n id="1" /> me, and how long will they not believe<n id="2" /> in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?

When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left.<n id="1" /> I don&#8217;t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!&#8221;