1. O that my eyes were clouds of water, that I might weep over you, and
pour forth my tears like rain,[257] and rest from the sorrow of my
heart!
2. Who has permitted you to hate and to transgress? Judgment shall
overtake you, ye sinners.
3. The righteous shall not fear the wicked; because God will again bring
them into your power, that you may avenge yourselves of them according
to your pleasure.
4. Woe to you who shall be so bound by execrations, that you cannot be
released from them; the remedy being far removed from you on account of
your sins. Woe to you who recompense your neighbour with evil; for you
shall be recompensed according to your works.
5. Woe to you, ye false witnesses, you who aggravate iniquity; for you
shall suddenly perish.
6. Woe to you, ye sinners; for you reject the righteous; for you receive
or reject _at pleasure_ those who _commit_ iniquity; and their yoke
shall prevail over you.
Footnote 257:
_a cloud of water._