¹³ For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that contemneth shall be no more? saith the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁰ it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it contemneth every tree.

²³ If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

²⁵ And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

² how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.