¹⁷ That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.

²¹ I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

⁸ It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

¹¹ God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

¹² I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

¹³ His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

¹⁴ I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

¹⁵ I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

⁶ Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

⁷ Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

⁸ My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

⁹ He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰ I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

¹¹ His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

¹⁹ God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

¹¹ From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.

¹² And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.