¹³ Thy strength and thy treasures For a prey I do give -- not for price, Even for all thy sins, and in all thy borders.

¹² Thou sellest Thy people -- without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.

³ O My mountain in the field -- thy strength, All thy treasures -- for a prey I give, Thy high places for sin in all thy borders.

³ For thus said Jehovah: `For nought ye have been sold, And not by money are ye redeemed.'

⁵ And I have given all the strength of this city, And all its labour, and all its precious things, Yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah I do give into the hand of their enemies, And they have spoiled them, and taken them, And have brought them into Babylon.

⁵ And now, what -- to Me here, An affirmation of Jehovah, That taken is My people for nought? Its rulers cause howling, -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And continually all the day My name is despised.

⁸ Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them -- against the mother -- A young man -- a spoiler -- at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.