¹⁴ Like a hunted^(A) gazelle,
    like sheep without a shepherd,^(B)
they will all return to their own people,
    they will flee^(C) to their native land.^(D)

⁶ “Flee^(A) from Babylon!
    Run for your lives!
    Do not be destroyed because of her sins.^(B)
It is time^(C) for the Lord’s vengeance;^(D)
    he will repay^(E) her what she deserves.

⁹ “‘We would have healed Babylon,
    but she cannot be healed;
let us leave^(A) her and each go to our own land,
    for her judgment^(B) reaches to the skies,
    it rises as high as the heavens.’

¹⁶ You have increased the number of your merchants
    till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts^(A) they strip the land
    and then fly away.

¹⁷ Your guards are like locusts,^(A)
    your officials like swarms of locusts
    that settle in the walls on a cold day—
but when the sun appears they fly away,
    and no one knows where.