GIMEL. Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, and by reason of the abundance of her servitude; she dwells among the nations, she has not found rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.

They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill. He will remember their iniquities, He will take vengeance on their sins.

From the time the hills [existed] Israel has sinned. There they stood. War [waged] against the children of iniquity,