21. So I went forth unto the host to seek this betrayer of women, and to speak peaceably with him, and to reason with him.
22. But he knew me afar off, and said to his brethren, Lo, here cometh that man of a strange country, let us make him our sport.
23. And they combined against me, and treated me with great indignity; for they bound my hands and put me into the river, and the flood carried me away, so that I said in mine heart, lo, I shall be drowned, for there is not one to pity or save me.
24. But they took me forth before my breath departed clean away; and they stripped me naked, and tied me to a stake, and scourged me.
25. And afterwards they stoned me out of the camp.
26. And I was very wroth, and went unto the captain of the host, and made my complaint known unto him.
27. And I said, O my lord, hearken unto the voice of thy servant. Behold one of your captains of fifty came unto the house of Galli the scribe.
28. And the man intreated him kindly, yet hath he betrayed his daughter, and refuseth to do her justice; and the maid will die, and her father, who is a good man, will go down to the grave with her.