54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will (A)begrudge food to his brother, to (B)the wife he embraces,[a] and to the last of the children whom he has left,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:54 Hebrew the wife of his bosom

The Humiliation of Babylon

47 (A)Come down and sit in the dust,
    O virgin (B)daughter of Babylon;
(C)sit on the ground without a throne,
    O daughter of (D)the Chaldeans!
(E)For you shall no more be called
    tender and delicate.

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