⁹ His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me.

¹⁶ Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed `her' up, Surely this `is' the day that we looked for, We have found -- we have seen.'

¹⁶ With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

²⁴ Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

⁵⁴ And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;

¹ `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

¹² The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

¹¹ And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

⁴ (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

¹⁶ And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.

¹⁷ Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare `are' with me.

⁸ Thou dost not rejoice over me, O mine enemy, When I have fallen, I have risen, When I sit in darkness Jehovah is a light to me.

¹⁴ For I `am' as a lion to Ephraim, And as a young lion to the house of Judah, I -- I tear and go, I bear away, and there is no deliverer.

¹⁰ A bear lying in wait He `is' to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

²² Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

²⁷ And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,