Add parallel Print Page Options

Therefore my body is filled with pain.
Pangs have taken hold of me like the pangs of a woman in labor.
I am bewildered by what I hear,
    terrified by what I see.
My heart is bewildered,
terror overwhelms me.
The twilight I longed for
    has been turned into trembling.
Set the table, spread out the cloth!
Eat! Drink!
“Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!”

Read full chapter