10 You wearied(A) yourself by such going about,
    but you would not say, ‘It is hopeless.’(B)
You found renewal of your strength,(C)
    and so you did not faint.

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10 Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.

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10 You are wearied in the length of your way;
(A)Yet you did not say, ‘There is no hope.’
You have found the life of your hand;
Therefore you were not grieved.

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58 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Babylon’s thick wall(A) will be leveled
    and her high gates(B) set on fire;
the peoples(C) exhaust(D) themselves for nothing,
    the nations’ labor is only fuel for the flames.”(E)

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58 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

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58 Thus says the Lord of hosts:

“The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly (A)broken,[a]
And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
(B)The people will labor in vain,
And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary.”

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 51:58 Lit. laid utterly bare

13 Has not the Lord Almighty determined
    that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire,(A)
    that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?(B)

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13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?

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13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts
That the peoples labor [a]to feed the fire,
And nations weary themselves in vain?

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 2:13 Lit. for what satisfies fire, for what is of no lasting value