⁵ They crush your people,^(A) Lord;
    they oppress your inheritance.^(B)

¹⁵ What do you mean by crushing my people^(A)
    and grinding^(B) the faces of the poor?”^(C)
declares the Lord, the Lord Almighty.^(D)

²     you who hate good and love evil;
who tear the skin from my people
    and the flesh from their bones;^(A)
3 who eat my people’s flesh,^(B)
    strip off their skin
    and break their bones in pieces;^(C)
who chop^(D) them up like meat for the pan,
    like flesh for the pot?^(E)”

³⁴ “Nebuchadnezzar^(A) king of Babylon has devoured^(B) us,^(C)
    he has thrown us into confusion,
    he has made us an empty jar.
Like a serpent he has swallowed us
    and filled his stomach with our delicacies,
    and then has spewed^(D) us out.

²⁰ “You are my war club,^(A)
    my weapon for battle—
with you I shatter^(B) nations,^(C)
    with you I destroy kingdoms,
²¹ with you I shatter horse and rider,^(D)
    with you I shatter chariot^(E) and driver,
²² with you I shatter man and woman,
    with you I shatter old man and youth,
    with you I shatter young man and young woman,^(F)
23 with you I shatter shepherd and flock,
    with you I shatter farmer and oxen,
    with you I shatter governors and officials.^(G)

¹¹ “Because you rejoice and are glad,
    you who pillage my inheritance,^(A)
because you frolic like a heifer^(B) threshing grain
    and neigh like stallions,

¹⁷ “But your eyes and your heart
    are set only on dishonest gain,^(A)
on shedding innocent blood^(B)
    and on oppression and extortion.”^(C)