For what is my strength, that I continue? What is my time, that my soul endures?

And if I should call and He should not hear, I cannot believe that He has listened to my voice.

While he was yet speaking with them, behold, a messenger came to him. And he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?

And famine shall come sorely upon you, and it shall come to pass, [that] when you shall be hungry, you shall be grieved, and you shall speak evil of the prince and of your fathers' ordinances; and they shall look up to heaven above,

and they shall look on the earth below, and behold severe distress, and darkness, affliction, and anguish, and darkness so that [no one] can see; and he that is in anguish shall not be distressed only for a season.

And throwing the silver [coins] in the sanctuary, he departed; and going away, he hanged himself.

And he shall by no means escape from the power of the sword; let the bronze bow wound him.

And let the arrow pierce through his body; and let the stars be against his dwelling-place: let terrors come upon him.