⁷ He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.

¹⁸ There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

¹³ And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, `your' daily tasks, as when there was straw.

¹⁴ And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday and to-day, in making brick as heretofore?

¹⁵ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

¹⁶ There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault it in thine own people.

¹⁸ Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the number of bricks.

¹⁸ What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.

⁴ For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

³ Wherefore have we fasted, `say they', and thou seest not? `wherefore' have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find `your own' pleasure, and exact all your labors.