e Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that
seeketh him.

3:26. Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

3:27. Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his
youth.

3:28. Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath
taken it up upon himself.

3:29. Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be
hope.

3:30. Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be
filled with reproaches.

3:31. Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

3:32. Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according
to the multitude of his mercies.

3:33. Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the
children of men.

3:34. Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

3:35. Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the
most High,

3:36. Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath
not approved.

3:37. Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the
Lord commandeth it not?

3:38. Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the
Highest?

3:39. Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?

3:40. Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to the Lord.

3:41. Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the
heavens.

3:42. Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore
thou art inexorable.

3:43. Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou
hast killed and hast not spared.

3:44. Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not
pass through.

3:45. Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst
of the people.

3:46. Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

3:47. Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare, and
destruction.

3:48. Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the
destruction of the daughter of my people.

3:49. Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet, because there
was no rest:

3:50. Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

3:51. Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my
city.

3:52. Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without
cause.

3:53. Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone
over me.

3:54. Sade. Waters have flo