⁵ “‘Because you harbored an ancient hostility and delivered the Israelites over to the sword^(A) at the time of their calamity,^(B) the time their punishment reached its climax,^(C)

¹⁰ “‘Because you have said, “These two nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession^(A) of them,” even though I the Lord was there,

² This is what the Sovereign Lord says:^(A) The enemy said of you, “Aha!^(B) The ancient heights^(C) have become our possession.^(D)”’

³ Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged^(A) and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,^(B)