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

⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.

⁹ A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him.

¹⁰ A noose is hidden for him in the ground, A trap for him in the way.

¹² When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

³ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.

¹³ My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

¹² Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

¹³ From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

¹⁰ For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

¹¹ You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

¹² You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, But you brought us to the place of abundance.

⁹ But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, And don't go out with our armies.

¹⁰ You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

¹¹ You have made us like sheep for food, And have scattered us among the nations.

¹² You sell your people for nothing, And have gained nothing from their sale.

¹³ You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

² "As God lives, who has taken away my right, The Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

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.

²⁰ If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?