Therefore snares are around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,
withdraw your hand far from me, and do not let dread of you terrify me.
Terrifying sounds are in their ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.
Terrors frighten them on every side and chase them at their heels.
know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.
“But you are obsessed with the case of the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.
The hungry eat their harvest, and they take it even out of the thorns, and the thirsty pant after their wealth.
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
when panic strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!