Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my honor as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.
For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show yourself awesome against me.
For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come unto me.
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I could not endure.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison thereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.
Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.
Your fierce anger goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed you.
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto you? O Judah, what shall I do unto you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.