And in those days after a length of time, the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel groaned because of their tasks, and cried, and their cry because of their tasks went up to God.

Now then go and work, for straw shall not be given to you, yet you shall return the rate of bricks.

And the accountants of the children of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight, [for] men [were] saying, You shall not fail to deliver the daily rate of the brick-making.

And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and His soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

And the people, the princes of Gilead,said every man to his neighbor, Who is he that shall begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall even be head over all that dwell in Gilead.

And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he became a grinder in the prison house.

And Sampson said, Let my wife perish with the Philistines. And he bowed himself mightily; and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people that were in it. And the dead whom Sampson slew in his death were more than those whom he slew in his life.

and its produce [is] abundant for the kings whom You appointed over us because of our sins; and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, as it pleases them, and we are in great affliction.

Wherefore these things are against you; who shall sympathize with you in your grief? Downfall and destruction, famine and sword; who shall comfort you?

Your sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over; and you laid your body to the ground to them passing by outside.

And now why are you here? Thus says the Lord: Because My people were taken for nothing, wonder and howl. Thus says the Lord: On account of you My name is continually blasphemed among the Gentiles.

We have been persecuted, we have labored, we have had no rest.

Egypt gave the hand to us, Assyria to their own satisfaction.

But when he had spent everything, there arose a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods which the swine were eating, and no one gave him anything.

And You has made my enemies turn their backs before me; and You have destroyed them that hated me.

They cried, but there was no deliverer: [even] to the Lord, but He hearkened not to them.

Be not far from Me, for affliction is near; for there is no helper.

I looked on [my] right hand, and behold, for there was none that noticed me; refuge failed me; and there was none that cared for my soul.

And the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, and a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

And he said to her, Unless the Lord help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?

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?

For [if] He has turned away [His] anger, the whales under heaven have stooped under Him.

And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld; therefore My arm delivered them, and My anger drew near.