¹² I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
    he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his ^(A)target;

^11 (A)he turned aside my steps and ^(B)tore me to pieces;
    ^(C)he has made me desolate;
^12 (D)he bent his bow ^(E)and set me
    as a target for his arrow.

²⁰ If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind?
    Why have you made me ^(A)your mark?
    Why have I become a burden to you?

¹⁹ yet you have ^(A)broken us in the place of ^(B)jackals
    and covered us with ^(C)the shadow of death.

^18 (A)Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my ^(B)nest,
    and I shall multiply my days as ^(C)the sand,
¹⁹ my ^(D)roots spread out to ^(E)the waters,
    with the dew all night on my ^(F)branches,