21. The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake,to magnify his law and make it glorious.
22. But this is a people plundered and looted;they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons;they have become plunder with none to rescue,spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
23. Who among you will give ear to this,will attend and listen for the time to come?
24. Who gave up Jacob to the looter,and Israel to the plunderers?Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,in whose ways they would not walk,and whose law they would not obey?
25. So he poured on him the heat of his angerand the might of battle;it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.