¹³ Because `it is' a trier, And what if even the sceptre it is despising? It shall not be, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁰ So as to slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened. So as to have brightness it is polished, Desire hath rejoiced the sceptre of my son, It is despising every tree.

²³ If a scourge doth put to death suddenly, At the trial of the innocent He laugheth.

²⁵ And thou, wounded, wicked one, Prince of Israel, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end!

² because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;