¹³ Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.

²¹ Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

¹⁵ Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

⁴ For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

² For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand.

¹⁵ For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

¹¹ So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.

⁹ I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

¹⁰ No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.