⁷ Your country is desolate,^(A)
    your cities burned with fire;^(B)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners^(C)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.^(D)

²⁵ So he poured out on them his burning anger,^(A)
    the violence of war.
It enveloped them in flames,^(B) yet they did not understand;^(C)
    it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.^(D)

⁷ “They sow the wind
    and reap the whirlwind.^(A)
The stalk has no head;
    it will produce no flour.^(B)
Were it to yield grain,
    foreigners would swallow it up.^(C)