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

¹⁷ The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

² Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.

¹³ So `are' the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,

¹⁶ and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, `Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him who is sitting upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,'

¹⁷ because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?

¹⁷ `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

⁵ And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

⁸ Yea, the remnant of Jacob hath been among nations, In the midst of many peoples, As a lion among beasts of a forest, As a young lion among ranks of a flock, Which if it hath passed through, Hath both trodden down and hath torn, And there is no deliverer.

¹⁴ And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.

⁸ I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.

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.

⁶ Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

²⁸ And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

³² Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.

¹³ And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he hath prepared to destroy. And where `is' the fury of the oppressor?

¹⁴ In a day of prosperity be in gladness, And in a day of evil consider. Also this over-against that hath God made, To the intent that man doth not find anything after him.

⁴ The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' `are' all his devices.

⁴² They look, and there is no saviour; Unto Jehovah, and He hath not answered them.

¹⁸ The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee.