and gather themselves unto him do every man in distress, and every man who hath an exactor, and every man bitter in soul, and he is over them for head, and there are with him about four hundred men.

Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,

He doth laugh at the multitude of a city, The cries of an exactor he heareth not.

An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.

Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.

That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,

And in his place shall one stand up who shall cause the exactor to pass through the glory of the kingdom; but in a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.

And I will encamp about my house because of the army, because of those that pass by and that return; and the exactor shall not pass through them any more: for now have I seen it with mine eyes.

From him shall come forth the corner-stone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every exactor together.

For, as you are going with your adversary before the ruler, on the way give diligence to be released from him; lest he draw you to the judge, and the judge shall deliver you to the exactor, and the exactor shall cast you into prison.