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31 Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves,
    for emptiness will be their recompense.(A)

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Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
    and mingle tears with my drink,(A)

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For I eat ashes(A) as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears(B)

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11 Whom did you dread and fear
    so that you lied
and did not remember me
    or give me a thought?
Have I not kept silent and closed my eyes,[a]
    and so you do not fear me?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 57.11 Gk Vg: Heb silent even for a long time

11 “Whom have you so dreaded and feared(A)
    that you have not been true to me,
and have neither remembered(B) me
    nor taken this to heart?(C)
Is it not because I have long been silent(D)
    that you do not fear me?

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