You have forgotten ¹  the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

ר (Resh) See my pain and rescue me! For I do not forget your law.

Not only that, ¹  but I have seen the wicked approaching ²  and entering the temple, ³  and as they left the holy temple, ⁴  they boasted ⁵  in the city that they had done so. This also is an enigma. ⁶ 

You have destroyed ¹  my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, ²  I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject ³  the law of your God, I will reject ⁴  your descendants.

Then when ¹  many disasters and distresses overcome them ²  this song will testify against them, ³  for their ⁴  descendants will not forget it. ⁵  I know the ⁶  intentions they have in mind ⁷  today, even before I bring them ⁸  to the land I have promised.”

My guests ¹  and my servant girls consider ²  me a stranger; I am a foreigner ³  in their eyes.

My enemies ask this cruel question about me, ¹  ‘When will he finally die and be forgotten?’ ² 

For ¹  I am like a wineskin ²  dried up in smoke. ³  I do not forget your statutes.

When they were fed, ¹  they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; ²  as a result, they forgot me!

Why do you forget ¹  the Lord, who made you, who stretched out the sky ²  and founded the earth? Why do you constantly tremble all day long ³  at the anger of the oppressor, when he makes plans to destroy? Where is the anger of the oppressor? ⁴ 

The Lord watches over the innocent day by day ¹  and they possess a permanent inheritance. ² 

His house contains wealth and riches; his integrity endures. ¹ 

If ¹  someone pampers his servant from youth, he will be a weakling ²  in the end.

ו (Vav) He destroyed his temple ¹  as if it were a vineyard; ²  he destroyed his appointed meeting place. The Lord has made those in Zion forget both the festivals and the Sabbaths. ³  In his fierce anger ⁴  he has spurned ⁵  both king and priest.

I have wandered off like a lost sheep. ¹  Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

Are your amazing deeds experienced ¹  in the dark region, ²  or your deliverance in the land of oblivion? ³ 

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” ¹  In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

May his ancestors’ ¹  sins be remembered by the Lord! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten! ² 

Why do you keep on forgetting ¹  us? Why do you forsake us so long?

“They do not know how to do what is right.” (The Lord is speaking.) “They store up ¹  the spoils of destructive violence ²  in their fortresses.