<p class="poetry">Calamity is<n id="1" /> hungry for him,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and misfortune is ready at his side.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;May my enemy be like the wicked,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my adversary<n id="2" /> like the unrighteous.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;O earth, do not cover my blood,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">nor let there be a secret<n id="2" /> place for my cry.p>

<p class="poetry">That day<n id="1" /> &#8211; let it be darkness;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">let not God on high regard<n id="3" /> it,p> <p class="poetry">nor let light shine<n id="4" /> on it!p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> let that night be barren;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">let no shout of joy<n id="3" /> penetrate<n id="4" /> it!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;While he is<n id="1" /> filling his belly,p> <p class="poetry">God<n id="2" /> sends his burning anger<n id="3" /> against him,p> <p class="poetry">and rains down his blows upon him.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Before daybreak<n id="1" /> the murderer rises up;p> <p class="poetry">he kills the poor and the needy;p> <p class="poetry">in the night he is<n id="2" /> like a thief.<n id="3" />p>

He said, &#8220;Naked<n id="1" /> I came from my mother&#8217;s womb, and naked I will return there.<n id="2" /> The <sc>Lordsc> gives, and the <sc>Lordsc> takes away.<n id="3" /> May the name of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="4" /> be blessed!&#8221;