"If I have kept the poor from [their] desire, Or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

"And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul.

I am weary with my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Still our eyes failed us, [Watching] vainly for our help; In our watching we watched For a nation [that] could not save [us.]

Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, The strong shall not strengthen his power, Nor shall the mighty deliver himself;

It [will be] as though a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him! Or [as though] he went into the house, Leaned his hand on the wall, And a serpent bit him!

[Is] not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light? [Is it not] very dark, with no brightness in it?

I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said: "Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake, And break them on the heads of them all. I will slay the last of them with the sword. He who flees from them shall not get away, And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.

And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel, From there I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard [Him,]

So [are] the paths of all who forget God; And the hope of the hypocrite shall perish,

Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust [is] a spider's web.

He is uprooted from the shelter of his tent, And they parade him before the king of terrors.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, Though he may gain [much,] If God takes away his life?

The fear of the wicked will come upon him, And the desire of the righteous will be granted.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp will be put out in deep darkness.

"And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.