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