שׁוּר

Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only: