¹⁹ Woe to me because of my brokenness –
I am severely wounded!^(A)
I exclaimed, ‘This is my intense suffering,
but I must bear it.’

¹⁸ Why has my pain become unending,
my wound incurable,^(A)
refusing to be healed?
You truly have become like a mirage to me –
water that is not reliable.

⁹ The heart is more deceitful than anything else,^(A)
and incurable – who can understand it?^(B)