¹⁴ Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

²⁰ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

²² He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

²⁴ Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

¹⁹ The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

¹ The wicked flee when no one pursues; But the righteous are as bold as a lion.

¹⁵ Yahweh said to him, "Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him.

¹⁶ Cain went out from Yahweh's presence, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

⁵ I will surely require your blood of your lives. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, I will require the life of man.

⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

²¹ or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

²⁷ and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

⁶⁵ Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;

⁷ Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

³ For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

⁹ who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

⁴⁶ These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

⁴¹ Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

³⁶ "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues.

¹² The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.

¹³ Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all of us?

⁷ Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

¹⁴ They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.

¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

¹¹ Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.

¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

¹³ Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

¹⁴ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

¹⁰ Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

¹² Let there be none to extend kindness to him, Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

³² The wicked is brought down in his calamity, But in death, the righteous has a refuge.

²² and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

³ Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.

¹⁷ I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.