For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.