3:48 Streams 1 of tears flow from my eyes 2
because my people 3 are destroyed. 4
ע (Ayin)
3:49 Tears flow from my eyes 5 and will not stop;
there will be no break 6
3:50 until the Lord looks down from heaven
and sees what has happened. 7
3:51 What my eyes see 8 grieves me 9 –
all the suffering of the daughters in my city. 10
צ (Tsade)
3:52 For no good reason 11 my enemies
hunted me down 12 like a bird.
3:53 They shut me 13 up in a pit
and threw stones at me.
3:54 The waters closed over my head;
I thought 14 I was about to die. 15
ק (Qof)
3:55 I have called on your name, O Lord,
from the deepest pit. 16
3:56 You heard 17 my plea: 18
“Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!” 19
3:57 You came near 20 on the day I called to you;
you said, 21 “Do not fear!”
ר (Resh)
3:58 O Lord, 22 you championed 23 my cause, 24
you redeemed my life.
3:59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord;
pronounce judgment on my behalf! 25
3:60 You have seen all their vengeance,
all their plots against me. 26
ש (Sin/Shin)
3:61 You have heard 27 their taunts, O Lord,
all their plots against me.
3:62 My assailants revile and conspire 28
against me all day long.
3:63 Watch them from morning to evening; 29
I am the object of their mocking songs.
ת (Tav)
3:64 Pay them back 30 what they deserve, 31 O Lord,
according to what they 32 have done. 33
3:65 Give them a distraught heart; 34
may your curse be on them!
3:66 Pursue them 35 in anger and eradicate them
from under the Lord’s heaven.