²⁹ The secret things belong to the Lord our God,^(A) but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.^(B)

¹⁹ I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;^(A) I did not realize that they had plotted^(B) against me, saying,

²⁰ then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit,^(A) to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place^[a] in the land of the living.^(B)

²⁴ “Elam^(A) is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.^(B) All who had spread terror in the land of the living^(C) went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.^(D)