¹⁶ For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

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

¹⁴ I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

³ Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;

²⁰ And she said to them, Do not let my name be Naomi, but Mara, for the Ruler of all has given me a bitter fate.

¹⁶ The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

⁵ Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.

¹⁶ For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

⁴⁶ So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.

¹⁵ Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.