⁷ He has walled me about so that I cannot escape;
    he has put heavy chains on me;^(A)

²⁶ He will raise a signal for a nation far away
    and whistle for a people at the ends of the earth.
Here they come, swiftly, speedily!^(A)
27 None of them is weary; none stumbles;
    none slumbers or sleeps;
not a loincloth is loose;
    not a sandal strap broken;^(B)
28 their arrows are sharp;
    all their bows strung;
their horses’ hoofs seem like flint,
    and their wheels like the whirlwind.^(C)
29 Their roaring is like a lion;
    like young lions they roar;
they growl and seize their prey;
    they carry it off, and no one can rescue.^(D)
30 They will roar over it on that day,
    like the roaring of the sea.
And if one look to the land—
    only darkness and distress;
and the light grows dark with its clouds.^(E)

¹⁰ Some sat in darkness and in gloom,
    prisoners in misery and in irons,^(A)
11 for they had rebelled against the words of God
    and spurned the counsel of the Most High.^(B)
12 Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor;
    they fell down, with no one to help.^(C)
13 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he saved them from their distress;^(D)
14 he brought them out of darkness and gloom,
    and broke their bonds apart.^(E)