Indeed, you have now become the same! You see my downfall and are afraid.
My loved ones and my friends stand back from my plague, And my neighbours stand far away.
At my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me. Let it not be held against them.
“But all this came to be, so that the Scriptures of the prophets might be filled.” Then all the taught ones left Him and fled.
Then יהושע said to them, “All of you shall stumble in Me this night, for it has been written, ‘I shall strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.’
We would have healed Baḇ
Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for in what is he to be reckoned upon?
All the brothers of the poor shall hate him; How much more shall his friends go far from him! He pursues promises – they are gone!.
Sons of Aḏ
But you smear with falsehood, worthless healers, all of you!
My brothers are as undependable as a wadi, as a bed on which streams once ran,
Did I ever say, ‘Give to me’? or, ‘Offer a bribe for me from your wealth’?
All my intimate friends loathe me, and those whom I love have turned against me.