When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over it will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.

For judgment will be without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Indeed, mercy rejoices over judgment.

O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed, blessed is the one who rewards you as you have dealt out to us.

Blessed is the one who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

Their bows shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

And all the people answered and said, His blood be on us and on our children.

that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation,

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required from this generation.