¹² Let there be none to ^(A)extend kindness to him,
    nor any to ^(B)pity his fatherless children!

¹¹ When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
    women come and make a fire of them.
^(A)For this is a people without discernment;
    therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
    he who formed them will show them no favor.

^18 (A)Their bows will slaughter^[a] the young men;
    they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
    their eyes will not pity children.

¹⁷ Therefore the Lord does not ^(A)rejoice over their young men,
    and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is ^(B)godless and an evildoer,
    and every mouth speaks ^(C)folly.^[a]
(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

⁸ O daughter of Babylon, ^(A)doomed to be destroyed,
    blessed shall he be who ^(B)repays you
    with what you have done to us!
⁹ Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
    and ^(C)dashes them against the rock!