¹³ Has not the Lord Almighty determined
    that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,^(A)
    that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?^(B)

“Babylon’s thick wall^(A) will be leveled
    and her high gates^(B) set on fire;
the peoples^(C) exhaust^(D) themselves for nothing,
    the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”^(E)

¹¹ But now, all you who light fires
    and provide yourselves with flaming torches,^(A)
go, walk in the light of your fires^(B)
    and of the torches you have set ablaze.
This is what you shall receive from my hand:^(C)
    You will lie down in torment.^(D)