The agony of this woman’s existence is clear from the details of her situation, but it is also clear from the very structure of the sentences that comprise her story. Robert Gundry observes that “the sentence which forms vv 25-27 starts by referring to a woman and proceeds with a strikingly long series of [i.e., seven] participial phrases” that magnify “the prior hopelessness of the woman’s condition.” Here are the phrases: