An evil disease, say they, is poured out upon him and cleaves fast to him; and now that he is bedfast, he will not rise up again.
Many are saying of me, There is no help for him in God. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
Saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and persecute and take him, for there is none to deliver him.
And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?