¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, Because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹⁹ Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

⁷ I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

⁹ Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

¹¹ We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

⁶ Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, Without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, And Yahweh hasn't done it?

⁹ For her wounds are incurable; For it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, Even to Jerusalem.

²⁰ She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

¹³ When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.

²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!