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

²⁵ He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.

⁴ For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

¹¹ My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

⁵ And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;

³² He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

¹¹ For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.

¹³ He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

¹² If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

¹³ He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

²⁷ Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

¹⁰ So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

²⁰ The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

²³ He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him: