ע Ayin
17 Yet our eyes were spent,
Looking for help was avanity;
In our watching we have watched
For a bnation that could not save.
צ Tsadhe
18 They ahunted our steps
So that we could not walk in our open squares;
Our bend drew near,
Our days were finished,
For our end had come.
ק Qoph
19 Our pursuers were aswifter
Than the eagles of the sky;
They hotly pursued us on the mountains;
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.
ר Resh
20 The abreath of our nostrils, the banointed of Yahweh,
Was ccaptured in their pits,
Of whom we had said, “Under his dshadow
We shall live among the nations.”