So I said, “My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the Lord.”

They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

the blessing of the dying man descended on me, and I made the widow’s heart rejoice;

Moreover, the strength of their hands – what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;

I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.

We have overpowered them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. We have shattered them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: “Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish.”

Ships will come from the coast of Kittim, and will afflict Asshur, and will afflict Eber, and he will also perish forever.”

Furthermore, the Lord your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”

His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.

I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.

Moab, you are doomed! You people who worship Chemosh will be destroyed. Your sons will be taken away captive. Your daughters will be carried away into exile.

Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.

During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.

The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.