3:9. Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down. 3:10. Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait: as a lion in secret places. 3:11. Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate. 3:12. Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for his arrows. 3:13. He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver. 3:14. He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long. 3:15. He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. 3:16. Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath fed me with ashes. 3:17. Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things. 3:18. Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. 3:19. Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the wormwood and the gall. 3:20. Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul shall languish within me. 3:21. Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope. 3:22. Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. 3:23. Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. 3:24. Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him. 3:25. Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. 3:26. Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God. 3:27. Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth. 3:28. Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself. 3:29. Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. 3:30. Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches. 3:31. Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever. 3:32. Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies. 3:33. Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men. 3:34. Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land, 3:35. Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High, 3:36. Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved. 3:37. Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not? 3:38. Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest? 3:39. Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? 3:40. Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord. 3:41. Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens. 3:42. Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. 3:43. Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.