¹⁵ Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.

³ So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

²² I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

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.

⁴ O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

¹⁵ I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

⁴ My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

⁵ Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

²³ For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

¹⁶ And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

²⁷ If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

²⁸ I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

¹⁴ Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

⁹ A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

²⁵ For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.