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23 Which of you will listen to this?
Who will hear and give heed in the times to come?
24 Who gave Ya‘akov to be pillaged,
Isra’el to the plunderers?
Didn’t Adonai, against whom we have sinned,
in whose ways they refused to walk,
he whose Torah they did not obey?
25 This is why he poured on him his blazing anger
as well as the fury of battle —
it wrapped him in flames, yet he learned nothing;
it burned him, yet he did not take it to heart.

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23 Which of you will listen to this
    or pay close attention(A) in time to come?
24 Who handed Jacob over to become loot,
    and Israel to the plunderers?(B)
Was it not the Lord,(C)
    against whom we have sinned?
For they would not follow(D) his ways;
    they did not obey his law.(E)
25 So he poured out on them his burning anger,(F)
    the violence of war.
It enveloped them in flames,(G) yet they did not understand;(H)
    it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.(I)

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