2:19 ק (Qof)

Get up! Cry out in the night ¹ 

when the night watches start! ² 

Pour out your heart ³  like water

before the face of the Lord! ⁴ 

Lift up your hands ⁵  to him

for your children’s lives; ⁶ 

they are fainting ⁷ 

at every street corner. ⁸ 

2:20 ר (Resh)

Look, O Lord! Consider! ⁹ 

Whom have you ever afflicted ¹⁰  like this?

Should women eat their offspring, ¹¹ 

their healthy infants? ¹² 

Should priest and prophet

be killed in the Lord’s ¹³  sanctuary?