12. And thou, Jehovah of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
13. Sing ye unto Jehovah, praise Jehovah, for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.
14. Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!
15. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad!
16. And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday,
17. because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!
18. Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?