¹³ They will sow wheat but reap thorns;
    they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.^(A)
They will bear the shame of their harvest
    because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”^(B)

“Babylon’s thick wall^(A) will be leveled
    and her high gates^(B) set on fire;
the peoples^(C) exhaust^(D) themselves for nothing,
    the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”^(E)