⁴⁴ Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.

²² For I was ashamed to ask the king for aid and for horsemen, to defend us from the enemy in the way: because we had said to the king: The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him in goodness: and his power and strength, and wrath upon all them that forsake him.