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Rh :If so be there may be hope.
 * Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him,
 * Let him be filled full with reproach.
 * כ
 * For the will not cast off
 * For ever.
 * For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion
 * According to the multitude of His mercies.
 * For He doth not afflict willingly,
 * Nor grieve the children of men.
 * ל
 * To crush under foot
 * All the prisoners of the earth,
 * To turn aside the right of a man
 * Before the face of the Most High,
 * To subvert a man in his cause,
 * The Lord approveth not.
 * מ
 * Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass,
 * When the Lord commandeth it not?
 * Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not
 * Evil and good?
 * Wherefore doth a living man complain,
 * A strong man because of his sins?
 * נ
 * Let us search and try our ways,
 * And return to the.
 * Let us lift up our heart with our hands
 * Unto God in the heavens.
 * We have transgressed and have rebelled;
 * Thou hast not pardoned.
 * ס
 * Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us;
 * Thou hast slain unsparingly.
 * Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud,
 * So that no prayer can pass through.
 * Thou hast made us as the off-scouring and refuse
 * In the midst of the peoples.
 * פ
 * All our enemies have opened their mouth
 * Wide against us.
 * Terror and the pit are come upon us,
 * Desolation and destruction.
 * Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water,
 * For the breach of the daughter of my people.
 * ע
 * Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not,
 * Without any intermission,
 * Till the look forth,
 * And behold from heaven.
 * Mine eye affected my soul,
 * Because of all the daughters of my city.
 * צ
 * They have chased me sore like a bird,
 * That are mine enemies without cause.
 * They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
 * And have cast stones upon me.
 * Waters flowed over my head;
 * I said: 'I am cut off.'
 * ק
 * I called upon Thy name, O ,
 * Out of the lowest dungeon.
 * Thou heardest my voice; hide not
 * Thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
 * Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon Thee;
 * Thou saidst: 'Fear not.'
 * ר
 * Lord, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul;
 * Thou hast redeemed my life.
 * O, Thou hast been my wrong;
 * Judge Thou my cause.