⁵ Righteousness will be a belt round his hips;^(A)
faithfulness will be a belt round his waist.

24 Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare
and making it desolate.
He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:

⁶ Therefore a curse has consumed the earth,^(A)
and its inhabitants have become guilty;
the earth’s inhabitants have been burned,
and only a few survive.

²⁸ So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary,
and set Jacob apart for destruction^(A)
and Israel for scorn.