^24 (A)Because I have called and ^(B)you refused to listen,
    have ^(C)stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,

^2 (A)Why, when I came, was there no man;
    why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
^(B)Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
    Or have I no power to deliver?
^(C)Behold, by my rebuke ^(D)I dry up the sea,
    ^(E)I make the rivers a desert;
^(F)their fish stink for lack of water
    and die of thirst.

¹² I will destine you to the sword,
    and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
^(A)because, when I called, you did not answer;
    when I spoke, you did not listen,
^(B)but you did what was evil in my eyes
    and chose what I did not delight in.”