¹⁰ The king of Israel said, Alas! for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

¹³ Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.

³³ While he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Yahweh; why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?

³⁴ When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

³⁵ They remembered that God was their rock, The Most High God their redeemer.

³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied to him with their tongue.

³ The foolishness of man subverts his way; His heart rages against Yahweh.

²¹ They shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

²⁰ Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.