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

⁸ His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.

⁹ His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

¹⁰ The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.

¹² When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.

³ This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.

¹³ And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.

¹² Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

¹³ From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

¹⁰ For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

¹¹ You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.

¹² You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

⁹ But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

¹⁰ Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

¹¹ You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

¹² You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.

¹³ You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

¹⁴ Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

² By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

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.

²⁰ If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?