5. He has built up [siege mounds] against me and surrounded me with bitterness, tribulation, and anguish.
6. He has caused me to dwell in dark places like those long dead.
7. He walled me in so that I cannot get out; He has weighted down my chain.
8. Even when I cry and shout for help, He shuts out my prayer.
9. He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
10. He is to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion [hiding] in secret places.
11. He has turned me off my ways and pulled me in pieces; He has made me desolate.
12. He has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13. He has caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my heart [the seat of my affections and desires].
14. I have become a derision to all my people, and [the subject of] their singsong all the day.
15. He has filled me with bitterness; He has made me drink to excess and until drunken with wormwood [bitterness].