I have passed out of mind like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.
its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a sherd is found for taking fire from the hearth or dipping water out of the cistern.
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
to rule them with an iron scepter, as when clay pots are shattered—
“He has put my family far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek to hurt me speak of ruin and meditate on treachery all day long.
Blessed be the Lord forever. Amen and Amen.