⁶ I was angry^(A) with my people
    and desecrated my inheritance;^(B)
I gave them into your hand,^(C)
    and you showed them no mercy.^(D)
Even on the aged
    you laid a very heavy yoke.

¹⁰ Because of the violence^(A) against your brother Jacob,^(B)
    you will be covered with shame;
    you will be destroyed forever.^(C)

¹⁶ Just as you drank^(A) on my holy hill,^(B)
    so all the nations will drink^(C) continually;
they will drink and drink
    and be as if they had never been.^(D)

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)
25 So he poured out on them his burning anger,^(E)
    the violence of war.
It enveloped them in flames,^(F) yet they did not understand;^(G)
    it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.^(H)

¹⁷ the man who made the world a wilderness,^(A)
    who overthrew^(B) its cities
    and would not let his captives go home?”^(C)