³¹ if those of my tent ever said,
    ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’^[a]—^(A)

²     you who hate the good and love the evil,
who tear the skin off my people^[a]
    and the flesh off their bones,^(A)
3 who eat the flesh of my people,
    flay their skin off them,
break their bones in pieces,
    and chop them up like meat^[b] in a kettle,
    like flesh in a caldron.^(B)

¹⁸ yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves!
    and set an ambush—for their own lives!

¹¹ If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
    let us wantonly ambush the innocent;^(A)
12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive
    and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.^(B)

²⁵ Do not let them say to themselves,
    “Aha, we have our heart’s desire.”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed you^[a] up.”^(A)