²⁰ And she saith unto them, `Call me not Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly to me,

⁴ For arrows of the Mighty `are' with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves `for' me!

¹ I `am' the man `who' hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

² Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

³ Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

⁴ He hath worn out my flesh and my skin. He hath broken my bones.

⁵ He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

⁶ In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

⁷ He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

⁸ Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

⁹ He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

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

¹¹ My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

¹² He hath trodden His bow, And setteth me up as a mark for an arrow.

¹³ He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.

¹⁴ I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.

¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood.

¹⁶ And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

¹⁷ And Thou castest off from peace my soul, I have forgotten prosperity.

¹⁸ And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!

²⁰ Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.

²² And a sanctuary I did not see in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, is its sanctuary, and the Lamb,

⁸ `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming -- the Almighty.'

¹¹ and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield.

¹³ I have set `Him' till morning as a lion, So doth He break all my bones, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

¹⁵ I `am' afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.

¹⁴ And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof `is' every morning.

⁶ Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

⁷ By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

¹⁷ Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

³ and I appear unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; as to My name Jehovah, I have not been known to them;

¹⁴ and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved -- I am bereaved.'

¹ And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I `am' God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;