1:9 All of them intend
every face is determined.
They take prisoners as easily as one scoops up sand.
1:10 They mock kings
and laugh at rulers.
They laugh at every fortified city;
they build siege ramps
1:15 The Babylonian tyrant
he hauls them in with his throw net.
When he catches
he is very happy.
20:15 The wealth that he consumed
God will make him throw it out
20:16 He sucks the poison
the fangs
20:17 He will not look on the streams,
the rivers, which are the torrents
of honey and butter.
20:18 He gives back the ill-gotten gain
without assimilating it;
he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.
20:19 For he has oppressed the poor and abandoned them;
he has seized a house which he did not build.
20:20 For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite;
he does not let anything he desires
20:21 “Nothing is left for him to devour;
that is why his prosperity does not last.
20:22 In the fullness of his sufficiency,
distress
the full force of misery will come upon him.
20:23 “While he is
God
and rains down his blows upon him.
20:24 If he flees from an iron weapon,
then an arrow
20:25 When he pulls it out
the gleaming point
terrors come over him.
20:26 Total darkness waits to receive his treasures;
a fire which has not been kindled
will consume him
and devour what is left in his tent.
20:27 The heavens reveal his iniquity;
the earth rises up against him.
20:28 A flood will carry off his house,
rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
20:29 Such is the lot God allots the wicked,
and the heritage of his appointment
22:6 “For you took pledges
for no reason,
and you stripped the clothing from the naked.
22:7 You gave the weary
and from the hungry you withheld food.
22:8 Although you were a powerful man,
an honored man
22:9 you sent widows away empty-handed,
and the arms
22:10 That is why snares surround you,
and why sudden fear terrifies you,
22:16 The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain
and the one who gives to the rich
51:34 “King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
devoured me and drove my people out.
Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me.
He filled his belly with my riches.
He made me an empty dish.
He completely cleaned me out.”
51:35 The person who lives in Zion says,
“May Babylon pay for the violence done to me and to my relatives.”
Jerusalem says,
“May those living in Babylonia pay for the bloodshed of my people.”
5:1 Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud