Distress and pain frighten him – they overwhelm him, like a sovereign ready for the attack.
All the days of the wrong one he is paining himself, and few years have been stored up for the ruthless.
A frightening sound is in his ears; in peace a destroyer comes to him.
He wanders about for food – where is it? He knows that a day of darkness is prepared for him.
Because he has stretched out his hand against Ě
And He kindled His wrath against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.
His companies come together, and they cast up their way against me, and encamp all around my tent.
Distress and anguish have found me; Your commands are my delight.
“When your dread comes like a storm, And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.
And your poverty shall come, a prowler, And your need like an armed man.
And your poverty shall come like a prowler, And your need as an armed man.
“I have commanded My set-apart ones; I have also called My mighty men for My displeasure, My proudly exulting ones.”
and say to Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehuḏ
affliction and distress on every human being working what is evil, of the Yehuḏ