²¹ Therefore give their children over to famine;
    hurl them out to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless and widowed.
    May their men meet death by pestilence,
    their youths be slain by the sword in battle.^(A)

⁹ May his children be orphans
    and his wife a widow.^(A)
10 May his children wander about and beg;
    may they be driven out of^[a] the ruins they inhabit.
¹¹ May the creditor seize all that he has;
    may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.^(B)
12 May there be no one to do him a kindness
    nor anyone to pity his orphaned children.^(C)
13 May his posterity be cut off;
    may his name be blotted out in the second generation.^(D)
14 May the iniquity of his father^[b] be remembered before the Lord,
    and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.^(E)
15 Let them be before the Lord continually,
    and may his^[c] memory be cut off from the earth.^(F)
16 For he did not remember to show kindness
    but pursued the poor and needy
    and the brokenhearted to their death.^(G)
17 He loved to curse; let curses come on him.
    He did not like blessing; may it be far from him.^(H)
18 He clothed himself with cursing as his coat;
    may it soak into his body like water,
    like oil into his bones.^(I)
19 May it be like a garment that he wraps around himself,
    like a belt that he wears every day.”

³ We have become orphans, fatherless;
    our mothers are like widows.

⁸ Their widows became more numerous
    than the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of youths
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon her suddenly.

²¹ “Death has come up into our windows;
    it has entered our palaces
to cut off the children from the streets
    and the young men from the squares.”^(A)

²⁵ In the street the sword shall bereave,
    and in the chambers terror
for young man and woman alike,
    nursing child and old gray head.^(A)