¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

²¹ I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why do you call me Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"

⁸ You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

¹¹ God delivers me to the ungodly, And casts me into the hands of the wicked.

¹² I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.

¹³ His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

¹⁴ He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.

¹⁶ My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

⁶ Know now that God has subverted me, And has surrounded me with his net.

⁷ "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

⁸ He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

⁹ He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰ He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

¹⁹ God, who is enthroned forever, Will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, Who don't fear God.

¹¹ Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.

¹² It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, "Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil."