Though I've led you for 40 years in the desert, neither your clothes nor your shoes have worn out.

[Are] not my days few? Let him leave [me] alone; let him turn from me, and let me rejoice a little.

"If my heart has been seduced by a woman and I've laid in wait at my friend's door,

Let his days be few, let another take his office;

VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says, "The corpses that you've laid out in your midst are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot. But you'll be taken out from the middle of it.