¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled;
    your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.^(A)
When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by,^(B)
    you will be beaten down^(C) by it.

² “Who has stirred^(A) up one from the east,^(B)
    calling him in righteousness^(C) to his service^[a]?^(D)
He hands nations over to him
    and subdues kings before him.
He turns them to dust^(E) with his sword,
    to windblown chaff^(F) with his bow.^(G)

²⁴ “I will scatter you like chaff^(A)
    driven by the desert wind.^(B)

²¹ So give their children over to famine;^(A)
    hand them over to the power of the sword.^(B)
Let their wives be made childless and widows;^(C)
    let their men be put to death,
    their young men^(D) slain by the sword in battle.