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30:1  But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose avot I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my tzon.
30:2  Yea, what use was the koach of their hands to me, since their vigor hath perished?
30:3  For choser (want, lack) and hunger they gnawed the parched ground desolate and waste.
30:4  They cut up mallow plants by the bushes, and juniper roots for their lechem.
30:5  They were banished from among men, (they shouted after them as after a ganav);
30:6  To dwell in the clefts of the wadis, in holes of aphar, and in the rocks.
30:7  Among the bushes they brayed; tachat (under) the underbrush they were huddled together.
30:8  They were bnei naval, yea, sons of base men; they were driven forth out of ha’aretz.
30:9  And atah (now) am I their mocking song, yea, I am their byword.
30:10  They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not rok (spit) in my face [Mt 26:67].
30:11  Because He hath loosed my bowstring, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the resen (bridle) before me.
30:12  Upon my yamin (right hand) rise up the rabble; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
30:13  They break up my road, they set forward my overthrow, they have no ozer (helper).
30:14  They approach me as through a wide breach; in the shoah (desolation, Holocaust), they rolled themselves upon me.
30:15  Ballahot (terrors) are turned upon me; they pursue my dignity like the ruach, and my safety passeth away like a cloud.
30:16  And now my nefesh ebbs away from me; the yemei oni have taken hold upon me.
30:17  My atzmot are pierced in me in the night, and my gnawing pains take no rest.
30:18  By great koach is my garment disfigured; it bindeth me about like the collar of my kuttonet (chiton, robe).
30:19  He hath cast me into the chomer, and I am become like aphar and ashes.
30:20  I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost answer me lo (not); I stand up, and Thou regardest me not.
30:21  Thou art become cruel to me; with Thy strong yad Thou opposest Thyself against me.
30:22  Thou liftest me up to the ruach; Thou causest me to drive along, and vanish in the roaring of the storm.
30:23  For I know that Thou wilt bring me down to mavet, to the bais mo’ed l’khol chai.
30:24  Yet will not one stretch out his yad in a heap of ruin, or cry out for help in his disaster.
30:25  Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my nefesh grieved for the evyon (needy)?
30:26  When I looked for tov, then rah came unto me; and when I waited for ohr, there came ofel (darkness).
30:27  My bowels boiled, and rested not; yemei oni met me.
30:28  I went mourning without the sun; I stood up, and I cried out in the kahal.
30:29  I am an ach to jackals, and a re’a to owls.
30:30  My ohr (skin) grows black upon me, and my atzmot are burned with fever.
30:31  My kinnor (harp) also is turned to evel (mourning), and my flute into the voice of them that weep.