³ My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.

¹⁰ Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, That vengeance for your servants' blood is being poured out.

² Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,

¹⁰ As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

¹⁰ Then my enemy will see it, And shame will cover her who said to me, Where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.

¹⁷ Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, And don't give your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

¹² Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom Their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

⁸ "He trusts in Yahweh; Let him deliver him; Let him rescue him, since he delights in him."

² Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

¹² It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will requite me good for [his] cursing of me this day.