I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You
Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the gu
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, H
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.