<p class="poetry">On the poplars in her midstp> <p class="poetry">we hang our harps,p>

Her princes<n id="1" /> within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows<n id="2" /> within it.

I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.

Now the city was spread out<n id="1" /> and large, and there were not a lot of people in it.<n id="2" /> At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

<p class="poetry">They have prepared a net to trap me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I am discouraged.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They have dug a pit for me.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will fall<n id="4" /> into it! (Selah)p>

They say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it.<n id="1" /> Then we&#8217;ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Destructive forces will come against her horses and her<n id="1" /> chariots.p> <p class="poetry">Destructive forces will come against all the foreign troops within her;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they will be as frightened as women!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Destructive forces will come against her treasures;p> <p class="poetry">they will be taken away as plunder!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;So the time will certainly come<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when I will punish the idols of Babylon.p> <p class="poetry">Her whole land will be put to shame.p> <p class="poetry">All her mortally wounded will collapse in her midst.<n id="2" />p>

Therefore, this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8216;The corpses you have dumped<n id="1" /> in the midst of the city<n id="2" /> are the meat, and this city<n id="3" /> is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it.<n id="4" />

This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not<n id="1" /> be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel.

I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it,<n id="1" /> and you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.

Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel,<n id="1" /> and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, they could not save their own sons or daughters &#8211; they would save only their own lives.p>

Then say, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom),<n id="1" /> and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity),

As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have poured out my anger on you.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Take the choice bone of the flock,p> <p class="poetry">heap up bones under it;p> <p class="poetry">boil rapidly,p> <p class="poetry">and boil its bones in it.p>

<p class="poetry">For her blood was in it;p> <p class="poetry">she poured it on an exposed rock;p> <p class="poetry">she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.p>

<p class="poetry">Set the empty pot on the coals,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">until it becomes hot and its copper glows,p> <p class="poetry">until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot<n id="2" /> is consumed.p>

<p class="poetry">I will send a plague into the city<n id="1" /> and bloodshed into its streets;p> <p class="poetry">the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it<n id="2" /> from every side.p> <p class="poetry">Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The remainder, one and two-thirds miles<n id="1" /> in width and eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;