⁹ Should I not punish them for these things?^(A)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge myself^(B)
on such a nation as this?

¹⁹ Listen – the cry of my dear people
from a faraway land,
‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion,^(A)
her King not within her? ’
Why have they angered me
with their carved images,
with their worthless foreign idols?^(B)

Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay,^[a][b]

The Lord will judge his people.^[c](A)