We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.

We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every one on his ways, and break not their ranks.

Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;

Stay over to-night, and it shall be in the morning, if he will redeem thee, well let him redeem; but if he like not to redeem thee, then will I redeem thee, as Jehovah liveth. Lie down until the morning.