^6 (A)I was angry with My people;
^(B)I have profaned My inheritance,
And given them into your hand.
You showed them no mercy;
^(C)On the elderly you laid your yoke very heavily.

¹⁵ I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease;
For ^(A)I was a little angry,
And they helped—but with evil intent.”

¹⁰ “For ^(A)violence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And ^(B)you shall be cut off forever.

^16 (A)For as you drank on My holy mountain,
So shall all the nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as though they had never been.

²⁴ Who gave Jacob for plunder, and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the Lord,
He against whom we have sinned?
^(A)For they would not walk in His ways,
Nor were they obedient to His law.
²⁵ Therefore He has poured on him the fury of His anger
And the strength of battle;
^(B)It has set him on fire all around,
^(C)Yet he did not know;
And it burned him,
Yet he did not take it to ^(D)heart.

¹⁷ Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who ^[a]did not open the house of his prisoners?’