⁶The conquered people will taunt their conquerors and show their scorn for them. They will say, “You take what isn’t yours, but you are doomed! How long will you go on getting rich by forcing your debtors to pay up?”

⁷But before you know it, you that have conquered others will be in debt yourselves and be forced to pay interest. Enemies will come and make you tremble. They will plunder you! ⁸You have plundered the people of many nations, but now those who have survived will plunder you because of the murders you have committed and because of your violence against the people of the world and its cities.^d

⁹You are doomed! You have made your family rich with what you took by violence, and have tried to make your own home safe from harm and danger! ¹⁰But your schemes have brought shame on your family; by destroying many nations you have only brought ruin on yourself. ¹¹Even the stones of the walls cry out against you, and the rafters echo the cry.

¹²You are doomed! You founded a city on crime and built it up by murder.

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Footnotes

dthe people … cities; or the land, the city, and those who live in it.