Listen carefully to my words; let your ears be attentive to my explanation.

Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

Destruction and Death say, ‘With our ears we have heard a rumor about where it can be found.’

“Indeed, you have said in my hearing (I heard the sound of the words!):

Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings,

He delivers the afflicted by their afflictions, he reveals himself to them by their suffering.

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.

“Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.

Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.

“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.

And he reveals this for correction, and says that they must turn from evil.