<p class="poetry">That is why snares surround you,p> <p class="poetry">and why sudden fear terrifies you,p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, sovereign God!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Who is strong like you, O <sc>Lordsc>?p> <p class="poetry">Your faithfulness surrounds you.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you.<n id="1" /> A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you,<n id="2" /> and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

You will be<n id="1" /> an object of scorn and taunting,<n id="2" /> a prime example of destruction<n id="3" /> among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury.<n id="4" /> I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!