God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
“As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them,
Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made.
And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.
She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.
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