But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him.

Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.

He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?