² A troubling vision is declared to me:
“The treacherous one acts treacherously,^(A)
and the destroyer destroys.
Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all the groaning.”

¹⁶ From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
The Splendor of the Righteous One.^(A)
But I said, “I waste away! I waste away!^[a]
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously.^(B)

⁸ You have never heard; you have never known;
for a long time your ears have not been open.
For I knew that you were very treacherous,
and were known as a rebel from birth.^(A)