For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Thus says the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labor in vain, and the nations, because of the fire, and they shall be weary.

Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all its labors, and all its precious things, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall plunder them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.