13. They break up my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone helping them.
14. As through a wide breach they come; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15. Terrors are turned on me; they chase away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance vanishes.
16. “And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering have taken hold of me.
17. Night pierces my bones within me; my gnawing pains never rest.
18. By great power He seizes my garment; He binds me like the collar of my tunic.
19. He has cast me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20. “I cry out to You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, but You only look at me.
21. You have turned on me cruelly; You attack me with the might of Your hand.
22. You lift me up on the wind and make me ride on it; You toss me about in the storm.
23. For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all the living.
24. Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out His hand, and in his distress cry for help?