<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Therefore, this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Take note<n id="1" /> that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people&#8217;s lives<n id="2" /> like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people&#8217;s lives, which you hunt like birds.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Say to them: This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Will it prosper?p> <p class="poetry">Will he not rip out its rootsp> <p class="poetry">and cause its fruit to rot<n id="1" /> and wither?p> <p class="poetry">All its foliage<n id="2" /> will wither.p> <p class="poetry">No strong arm or large armyp> <p class="poetry">will be needed to pull it out by its roots.<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;Son of man, I have broken the arm<n id="1" /> of Pharaoh king of Egypt.<n id="2" /> Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword.

Therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look,<n id="1" /> I am against<n id="2" /> Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.