The soldiers roar like lions that have killed an animal and are carrying it off where no one can take it away from them.

I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets."

The nations of the world were like a bird's nest, and I gathered their wealth as easily as gathering eggs. Not a wing fluttered to scare me off; no beak opened to scream at me!"

The lion killed his prey and tore it to pieces for his mate and her cubs; he filled his den with torn flesh.

"I am your enemy!" says the LORD Almighty. "I will burn up your chariots. Your soldiers will be killed in war, and I will take away everything that you took from others. The demands of your envoys will no longer be heard."

By the rivers of Babylon we sat down; there we wept when we remembered Zion.

On the willows near by we hung up our harps.