So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. {us not...: Heb. me not, and my}

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. {blow: Heb. conflict}

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, {then} he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that {it is} not his hand {that} smote us: it {was} a chance {that} happened to us. {he: or, it}

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man {pleadeth} for his neighbour! {neighbour: or, friend}

But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, {even} Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. {blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness}

And it was {so}, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.

Come unto me, all {ye} that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me. {tarry: Heb. hope} {it grieveth...: Heb. I have much bitterness}

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, {even} Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord {is} upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. {blow: Heb. conflict}

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Even to day {is} my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. {stroke: Heb. hand}

For all his days {are} sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. {blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness}

Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted {me} with all thy waves. Selah.

Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.

For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.