For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

then You scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,

I am afraid of all my pain; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

If I am exalted, You hunt me like a lion, and return to show Yourself wondrously to me.

I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth; I have suffered Your terrors; I am perplexed.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and as a cloud, your sins; return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and it goes away like the early dew.

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff driven from the threshing floor by the storm, and as smoke out of the chimney.