18. We couldn’t go into the streetswithout danger to our lives.Our end was near; our days were numbered.We were doomed!
19. Our enemies were swifter than eagles in flight.If we fled to the mountains, they found us.If we hid in the wilderness,they were waiting for us there.
20. Our king—the lord’s anointed, the very life of our nation—was caught in their snares.We had thought that his shadowwould protect us against any nation on earth!
21. Are you rejoicing in the land of Uz,O people of Edom?But you, too, must drink from the cup of the lord’s anger.You, too, will be stripped naked in your drunkenness.
22. O beautiful Jerusalem, your punishment will end;you will soon return from exile.But Edom, your punishment is just beginning;soon your many sins will be exposed.