³ Let not the archer string his bow,^(A)
    nor let him put on his armor.^(B)
Do not spare her young men;
    completely destroy^[a] her army.
⁴ They will fall^(C) down slain in Babylon,^[b]
    fatally wounded in her streets.^(D)
5 For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken^(E)
    by their God, the Lord Almighty,
though their land^[c] is full of guilt^(F)
    before the Holy One of Israel.