I cry to you, and you do not heed me. I stand up, and you do not look back at me.
Behold, I will cry out, enduring violence, and no one will hear. I will announce loudly, but there is no one who may judge.
Will God pay attention to his cry, when anguish overcomes him?
then, would he grant me a hearing, so that the Almighty would listen to my desire, and he who judges would himself write a book,
He has settled me here, in a place of pasture. He has led me out to the water of refreshment.
He has converted my soul. He has led me away on the paths of justice, for the sake of his name.
Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.
SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.
GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
He did not say a word to her. And his disciples, drawing near, petitioned him, saying: "Dismiss her, for she is crying out after us."