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Will not all take up a proverb against him or a scornful riddle about him?
Oy to one expanding what isn’t his!
    How long?
    Oy to one burdening himself with heavy debts!”
Will biting you arise suddenly,
and those shaking you awaken,
as you will become plunder for them?
Since you looted many nations,
all the survivors will plunder you—
because of human bloodshed
and violence done to the land, the city and all its inhabitants.

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“Will not all of them taunt(A) him with ridicule and scorn, saying,

“‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods
    and makes himself wealthy by extortion!(B)
    How long must this go on?’
Will not your creditors suddenly arise?
    Will they not wake up and make you tremble?
    Then you will become their prey.(C)
Because you have plundered many nations,
    the peoples who are left will plunder you.(D)
For you have shed human blood;(E)
    you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.(F)

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