<p class="poetry">lest you give your vigor<n id="1" /> to othersp> <p class="poetry">and your years to a cruel person,p>

<p class="poetry">Surely<n id="1" /> one sees<n id="2" /> that even wise people die;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and leave their wealth to others.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their houses will be turned over to othersp> <p class="poetry">as will their fields and their wives.p> <p class="poetry">For I will unleash my power<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">against those who live in this land,&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen,<n id="1" /> and our children are just like their children,<n id="2" /> still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery.<n id="3" /> Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help,<n id="4" /> since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">So I will give their wives to other menp> <p class="poetry">and their fields to new owners.p> <p class="poetry">For from the least important to the most important of them,p> <p class="poetry">all of them are greedy for dishonest gain.p> <p class="poetry">Prophets and priests alike,p> <p class="poetry">all practice deceit.p>