^{2 Ref} A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.

^{3 Ref} Therefore filled have been my loins `with' great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.

^{4 Ref} Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,