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.

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.

¹ I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

² By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

³ Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

⁴ My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

⁵ He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

⁶ He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

⁷ He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

⁸ Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

⁹ He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

¹⁰ He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

¹¹ By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

¹² With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.

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

¹⁴ I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

¹⁵ He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

¹⁶ By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

¹⁷ My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

¹⁸ And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

¹⁹ Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

²⁰ My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

²² And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.

⁸ I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.

¹¹ At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.

¹³ I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

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.

¹⁴ For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

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

⁷ Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

¹⁷ Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

³ I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.

¹⁴ So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,