³ At this my body is racked with pain,^(A)
    pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;^(B)
I am staggered by what I hear,
    I am bewildered^(C) by what I see.

⁴ My heart^(A) falters,
    fear makes me tremble;^(B)
the twilight I longed for
    has become a horror^(C) to me.