עָוָה

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.