¹⁸ For I am full of words;
The spirit within me compels me.
¹⁹ Indeed my ^[a]belly is like wine that has no ^[b]vent;
It is ready to burst like new wineskins.
²⁰ I will speak, that I may find relief;
I must open my lips and answer.

³ My heart was hot within me;
While I was ^[a]musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:

¹⁹ O my ^(A)soul, my soul!
I am pained in my very heart!
My heart makes a noise in me;
I cannot hold my peace,
Because you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.

⁹ My heart within me is broken
Because of the prophets;
^(A)All my bones shake.
I am like a drunken man,
And like a man whom wine has overcome,
Because of the Lord,
And because of His holy words.