16The presence of the LORD has scattered them,
         He will not continue to regard them;
         They did not honor the priests,
         They did not favor the elders.

17Yet our eyes failed,
         Looking for help was useless;
         In our watching we have watched
         For a nation that could not save.

18They hunted our steps
         So that we could not walk in our streets;
         Our end drew near,
         Our days were finished
         For our end had come.

19Our pursuers were swifter
         Than the eagles of the sky;
         They chased us on the mountains,
         They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

20The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’S anointed,
         Was captured in their pits,
         Of whom we had said, “Under his shadow
         We shall live among the nations.”

21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
         Who dwells in the land of Uz;
         But the cup will come around to you as well,
         You will become drunk and make yourself naked.

22The punishment of your iniquity has been completed, O daughter of Zion;
         He will exile you no longer.
         But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom;
         He will expose your sins!

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