How long, Lord, have I called for help, And You do not hear? I cry out to You, “Violence!” Yet You do not save.

Why do You make me see disaster, And make me look at destitution? Yes, devastation and violence are before me; Strife exists and contention arises.

All of them come for violence. Their horde of faces moves forward. They gather captives like sand.

Since you have looted many nations, All the rest of the peoples will loot you— Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants.

“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed, And founds a town with violence!

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, And the devastation of its animals by which you terrified them, Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land, To the town and all its inhabitants.