Therefore I am[a] filled with anguish.
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.(A)
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.
My heart staggers;
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope[b]
into sheer terror.(B)
Prepare a table,(C) and spread out a carpet!
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!

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Footnotes

  1. 21:3 Lit my waist is, or my insides are
  2. 21:4 Lit my twilight

At this my body is racked with pain,(A)
    pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;(B)
I am staggered by what I hear,
    I am bewildered(C) by what I see.
My heart(D) falters,
    fear makes me tremble;(E)
the twilight I longed for
    has become a horror(F) to me.

They set the tables,
    they spread the rugs,
    they eat, they drink!(G)
Get up, you officers,
    oil the shields!(H)

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