³⁵ It is mine to avenge;^(A) I will repay.^(B)
    In due time their foot will slip;^(C)
their day of disaster is near
    and their doom rushes upon them.^(D)”

³ My enemies turn back;
    they stumble and perish before you.
⁴ For you have upheld my right^(A) and my cause,^(B)
    sitting enthroned^(C) as the righteous judge.^(D)

¹² So he subjected them to bitter labor;
    they stumbled, and there was no one to help.^(A)

¹³ The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,^(A)
    he is the one you are to fear,^(B)
    he is the one you are to dread.^(C)
14 He will be a holy place;^(D)
    for both Israel and Judah he will be
a stone^(E) that causes people to stumble^(F)
    and a rock that makes them fall.^(G)
And for the people of Jerusalem he will be
    a trap and a snare.^(H)
15 Many of them will stumble;^(I)
    they will fall and be broken,
    they will be snared and captured.”

¹¹ Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues^(A)
    God will speak to this people,^(B)
12 to whom he said,
    “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”;^(C)
and, “This is the place of repose”—
    but they would not listen.
¹³ So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
    Do this, do that,
    a rule for this, a rule for that;
    a little here, a little there^(D)—
so that as they go they will fall backward;
    they will be injured^(E) and snared and captured.^(F)

“I will put obstacles before this people.
    Parents and children alike will stumble^(A) over them;
    neighbors and friends will perish.”