12. O lord of Heaven’s Armies,you test those who are righteous,and you examine the deepest thoughts and secrets.Let me see your vengeance against them,for I have committed my cause to you.
13. Sing to the lord!Praise the lord!For though I was poor and needy,he rescued me from my oppressors.
14. Yet I curse the day I was born!May no one celebrate the day of my birth.
15. I curse the messenger who told my father,“Good news—you have a son!”
16. Let him be destroyed like the cities of oldthat the lord overthrew without mercy.Terrify him all day long with battle shouts,