²² But this is a people who have been robbed and plundered,
    all of them trapped in pits
        or hidden away in prisons.^[a]
They have become prey, with no one to rescue them;
    they have been made loot, with no one to say, ‘Send them back!’

²⁴ “Who handed Jacob over to looters,
    and Israel to robbers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned?
    After all, they weren’t willing to walk in his ways,
        and they wouldn’t obey^[c] his instruction,