¹⁴ What he tears down^(A) cannot be rebuilt;^(B)
    those he imprisons cannot be released.^(C)

“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)

⁷ So that everyone he has made may know his work,^(A)
    he stops all people from their labor.^[a](B)

¹⁰ He tears me down^(A) on every side till I am gone;
    he uproots my hope^(B) like a tree.^(C)

¹¹ God has turned me over to the ungodly
    and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.^(A)

¹⁰ “If he comes along and confines you in prison
    and convenes a court, who can oppose him?^(A)