50:7 All who encountered them devoured them.
Their enemies who did this said, ‘We are not liable for punishment!
For those people have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. 1
They have sinned against the Lord in whom their ancestors 2 trusted.’ 3
50:17 “The people of Israel are like scattered sheep
which lions have chased away.
First the king of Assyria devoured them. 4
Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones. 5
50:18 So I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say: 6
‘I will punish the king of Babylon and his land
just as I punished the king of Assyria.