For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.