Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.

And You have counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.

Before them shall the people be crushed; every face [shall be] as the blackness of a caldron.

[There is] thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.

ALEPH. How will the gold be tarnished, and the fine silver changed! The sacred stones have been poured forth at the top of all the streets.

BETH. The precious sons of Zion, who were equaled in value with gold, how are they counted as earthen vessels, the works of the hands of the potter!

Now they both went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they arrived at Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

And she said to them, No, do not call me Naomi; call me 'Bitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me.

And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; and they cried with a loud voice, and wept, and everyone tore his garment, and sprinkled dust upon their heads,

As many shall be amazed at You, so shall Your face be without glory from men, and Your glory [shall not be honored] by the sons of men.

My flesh is corrupt under my skin, and my bones are held in my teeth.

until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall show his bones bare.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in [me]. Pause.

For there is no health in my flesh because of Your anger; there is no peace to my bones because of my sins.

For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones has cleaved to my flesh.

For I have become as a bottle in the frost; [yet] I have not forgotten Your statutes.