All thy foes, have opened wide, over thee their mouth, They have hissed, and gnashed their teeth, They have said - We have swallowed her up! Surely, this, is the day for which we have waited, We have found! We have seen!

In dark places, hath he made me sit, like the dead of age-past times.

He hath trodden his bow, and set me up, as a mark for the arrow.

And I said, Vanished is mine endurance, even mine expectation, from Yahweh.

Let him sit alone, and keep silence, because he took it upon himself:

Waters, flowed over, my head, I said, I am cut off!

Turn aside! Unclean! have they cried to them, Turn aside! Turn aside! Do not touch! because they have fled, yea, wandered, Men said among the nations, They will not again tarry;

The fragrance of our nostrils, The Anointed of Yahweh, hath been captured in their pits, - of whom we had said - In his shade, shall we live among the nations.

Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.