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 sufferings; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

If [my head] is exalted, You hunt me like a fierce lion, And again You show Yourself awesome against me.

I [have been] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth; I suffer Your terrors; I am distraught.

I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, And like 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 faithfulness is like a morning cloud, And like the early dew it goes away.

Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud And like the early dew that passes away, Like chaff blown off from a threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.