What strength do I have to keep on living? Why go on living when I have no hope?

Yet even then, if he lets me speak, I can't believe he would listen to me.

He had hardly finished saying this, when the king arrived and said, "It's the LORD who has brought this trouble on us! Why should I wait any longer for him to do something?"

The people will wander through the land, discouraged and hungry. In their hunger and their anger they will curse their king and their God. They may look up to the sky

or stare at the ground, but they will see nothing but trouble and darkness, terrifying darkness into which they are being driven.

Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.

When they try to escape from an iron sword, a bronze bow will shoot them down.

Arrows stick through their bodies; the shiny points drip with their blood, and terror grips their hearts.