| 1 | O that my eyes were clouds of water, that I might weep over you, and pour forth my tears like rain, and rest from the sorrow of my heart! |
| 2 | Who has permitted you to hate and to transgress? Judgment shall overtake you, ye sinners. |
| 3 | The righteous shall not fear the wicked; because God will again bring them into your power, that you may avenge yourselves of them according to your pleasure. |
| 4 | Woe to you who shall be so bound by execrations, that you cannot be released from them; the remedy being far removed from you on account of your sins. Woe to you who recompense your neighbour with evil; for you shall be recompensed according to your works. |
| 5 | Woe to you, false witnesses, you who aggravate iniquity; for you shall suddenly perish. |
| 6 | Woe to you, sinners; for you reject the righteous; for you receive or reject at pleasure those who commit iniquity; and their yoke shall prevail over you. |
| 7 | Wait in hope, you righteous; for suddenly shall sinners perish from before you, and you shall exercise dominion over them, according to your will. |
| 8 | In the day of the sufferings of sinners your offspring shall be elevated, and lifted up like eagles. Your nest shall be more exalted than that of the avest; you shall ascend, and enter into the cavities of the earth, and into the clefts of the rocks for ever, like conies, from the sight of the ungodly; |
| 9 | Who shall groan over you, and weep like sirens. |
| 10 | You shall not fear those who trouble you; for restoration shall be yours; a splendid light shall shine around you, and the voice of tranquility shall be heard from heaven. Woe to you, sinners; for your wealth makes you resemble saints, but your hearts reproach you, knowing that you are sinners. This word shall testify against you, for the remembrance of crime. |
| 11 | Woe to you who feed upon the glory of the corn, and drink the strength of the deepest spring, and in the pride of your power tread down the humble. |
| 12 | Woe to you who drink water at pleasure; for suddenly shall you be recompensed, consumed, and withered, because you have forsaken the foundation of life. |
| 13 | Woe to you who act iniquitously, fraudulently, and blasphemously; there shall be a remembrance against you for evil. |
| 14 | Woe to you, powerful, who with power strike down righteousness; for the day of your destruction shall come; while at that very time many and good days shall be the portion of the righteous, even at the period of your judgment. |
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