3:44. Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through. 3:45. Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people. 3:46. Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 3:47. Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction. 3:48. Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 3:49. Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest: 3:50. Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens. 3:51. Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city. 3:52. Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause. 3:53. Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me. 3:54. Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off. 3:55. Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the lowest pit. 3:56. Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries. 3:57. Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not. 3:58. Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life. 3:59. Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment. 3:60. Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me. 3:61. Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me. 3:62. Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day. 3:63. Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song. 3:64. Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands. 3:65. Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour. 3:66. Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord. Lamentations Chapter 4 4:1. Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed, the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street? 4:2. Beth. The noble sons of Sion, and they that were clothed with the best gold: how are they esteemed as earthen vessels, the work of the potter's hands? 4:3. Ghimel. Even the sea monsters have drawn out the breast, they have given suck to their young: the daughter of my people is cruel, like the ostrich in the desert. 4:4. Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath stuck to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them. 4:5. He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung. 4:6. Vau. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is made greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and hands took nothing in her. 4:7. Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the sapphire.