DALETH. He has built up my ways, He has hedged my paths;

Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in.

I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: He has set darkness before my face.

You have removed my acquaintance far from me; they have made me an abomination to themselves; I have been delivered up, and have not gone forth.

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.

Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.

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.

We have been persecuted, we have labored, we have had no rest.

And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, [by] bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.