Samek
“You have wrapped yourself
With anger.
You have pursued us.
You have killed us
Without pity.
You have wrapped yourself
With a cloud.
Thus no prayer
Can pass through.
You have made us filth.
You have made us rubbish.
Among the people.”
This author turns in an unanswered prayer towards Yahweh, addressing him in the second person singular. Yahweh had wrapped himself in anger and a cloud. He had pursued this author and his friends, killing them without pity. Their prayers to Yahweh could not penetrate through the clouds. They had become filth and rubbish among all people as they were forsaken and downtrodden. These three verses start with the Hebrew consonant letter Samek in this acrostic poem.
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