^{4 Ref} that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

^{5 Ref} Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers;

^{6 Ref} who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.