42. Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
43. Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
44. Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
45. Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
46. Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47. Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and destruction.
48. Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49. Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there was no rest:
50. Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
51. Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
52. Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
53. Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.