²² But this is a people robbed and plundered;
    all of them are trapped in holes
    and hidden in prisons;
they have become a prey with no one to rescue,
    a spoil with no one to say, “Restore!”^(A)

²³ And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
    who have said to you,
    “Bow down, that we may walk on you,”
and you have made your back like the ground
    and like the street for them to walk on.^(A)

¹⁷ who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    who would not let his prisoners go home?”^(A)

²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoners,
    to set free those who were doomed to die,^(A)