²⁴ Who handed Jacob over to become loot,
    and Israel to the plunderers?^(A)
Was it not the Lord,^(B)
    against whom we have sinned?
For they would not follow^(C) his ways;
    they did not obey his law.^(D)

⁶ When a trumpet^(A) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster^(B) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?^(C)

¹⁸ “The Lord is righteous,^(A)
    yet I rebelled^(B) against his command.
Listen, all you peoples;
    look on my suffering.^(C)
My young men and young women
    have gone into exile.^(D)

¹⁴ “My sins have been bound into a yoke^[a];^(A)
    by his hands they were woven together.
They have been hung on my neck,
    and the Lord has sapped my strength.
He has given me into the hands^(B)
    of those I cannot withstand.

¹⁵ People of Israel,” declares the Lord,
    “I am bringing a distant nation^(A) against you—
an ancient and enduring nation,
    a people whose language^(B) you do not know,
    whose speech you do not understand.