²⁸ Because you have raged against me
    and your complacency has come into my ears,
I will ^(A)put my hook in your nose
    and my bit in your mouth,
and ^(B)I will turn you back on the way
    by which you came.

⁴ I will ^(A)put hooks in your jaws,
    and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales;
and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams,
    with all the fish of your streams
    that stick to your scales.

^2 (A)The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
^(B)when they shall take you away with hooks,
    ^(C)even the last of you with fishhooks.

^28 (A)his breath is ^(B)like an overflowing stream
    that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
    and to place on the jaws of the peoples ^(C)a bridle that leads astray.

² Can you put ^(A)a rope in his nose
    or pierce his jaw with ^(B)a hook?