RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom You have gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? The cook has made a gathering: shall the infants nursing at the breasts be slain? Will You slay the priest and prophet in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

O God of hosts, turn, we pray; look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;

[It is] burned with fire and dug up; they shall perish at the rebuke of Your presence.

For He has looked out from the height of His sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven;

to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain;

And on your walls, O Jerusalem, have I set watchmen all day and all night, who shall never cease making mention of the Lord.

For there is none like You, when He shall have established, and made Jerusalem a praise on the earth.

Turn from heaven, and look from Your holy habitation and [from] Your glory; where is Your zeal and Your strength? Where is the abundance of Your mercy and of Your compassions, that You have withheld Yourself from us?

If you would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from You, and they shall melt,

O Lord, Your mercy is over all: let Your wrath turn away, I pray, and Your anger from Your city Jerusalem, [even] Your holy mountain; for we have sinned, and because of our iniquities, and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a reproach among all that are round about us.

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of the city which is called by Your name; for we do not bring our pitiful case before You on [the grounds of] our righteousness, but [because of] Your manifold compassions, O Lord.