Resh
“See!
O Yahweh!
How distressed I am!
My stomach churns!
My heart is
Wrung within me.
Because I have been
Very rebellious.
In the street,
The sword bereaves.
In the house,
It is like death.”
Once again, we are back to a personal lament from Jerusalem itself about how distressed Jerusalem is. This personified Jerusalem has a stomach that churns and a heart that has dried up. Jerusalem admitted that she had been very rebellious. However, the sword was in bereavement in the streets, because every house was like a house of death. This verse starts with the Hebrew consonant letter Resh. Each verse after this will use the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet in this acrostic poem.