LAMED. All you that pass by the way, turn, and see if there is sorrow likened to my sorrow, which has happened to me. The Lord who spoke by me has afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger.

NUN. He has watched over my sins, they are twined about my hands, they have come up on my neck. My strength has failed, for the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.

Pity me, pity me, O my friends; for it is the hand of the Lord that has touched me.

What many and great afflictions have You shown me! Yet You turned and revived me, and brought me again from the depths of the earth.

Your wrath has pressed heavily upon me, and You have brought upon me all Your billows. Pause.

I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.

Your wrath has passed over me; and Your terrors have greatly disquieted me.

But His form was ignoble, and inferior to that of the children of men; [He was] a man in suffering, and acquainted with the bearing of sickness, for His face has turned from [us]; He was dishonored, and not esteemed.

I have not sat in the assembly of them as they mocked, but I feared because of Your power. I sat alone, for I was filled with bitterness.

Why do they that grieve me prevail against me? My wound is severe; when shall I be healed? It has indeed become to me as deceitful water that has no faithfulness.

Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!

Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;

Why is it that I came forth from the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

And they cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, which was in the court of the prison; and they let him down into the pit: and there was no water in the pit, but mire. And he was in the mire.