⁸ Israel is swallowed up;^(A)
    now she is among the nations
    like something no one wants.^(B)

²⁸ Is this man Jehoiachin^(A) a despised, broken pot,^(B)
    an object no one wants?
Why will he and his children be hurled^(C) out,
    cast into a land^(D) they do not know?

³⁴ “Nebuchadnezzar^(A) king of Babylon has devoured^(B) us,^(C)
    he has thrown us into confusion,
    he has made us an empty jar.
Like a serpent he has swallowed us
    and filled his stomach with our delicacies,
    and then has spewed^(D) us out.

¹⁶ All your enemies open their mouths
    wide against you;^(A)
they scoff and gnash their teeth^(B)
    and say, “We have swallowed her up.^(C)
This is the day we have waited for;
    we have lived to see it.”^(D)

⁵ The Lord is like an enemy;^(A)
    he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
    and destroyed her strongholds.^(B)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation^(C)
    for Daughter Judah.^(D)

² Without pity^(A) the Lord has swallowed^(B) up
    all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has torn down
    the strongholds^(C) of Daughter Judah.
He has brought her kingdom and its princes
    down to the ground^(D) in dishonor.