<p class="poetry">Your creditors will suddenly attack;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">those who terrify you will spring into action,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and they will rob you.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry"><sc>Lordsc>, you have been active from ancient times;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my sovereign God,<n id="2" /> you are immortal.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry"><sc>Lordsc>, you have made them<n id="4" /> your instrument of judgment.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Protector,<n id="6" /> you have appointed them as your instrument of punishment.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">Be sure of this! The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has decreed:p> <p class="poetry">The nations&#8217; efforts will go up in smoke;p> <p class="poetry">their exhausting work will be for nothing.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But all these nations will someday taunt him<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">(How long will this go on?)<n id="4" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">he who gets rich by extortion!&#8217;<n id="5" />p>