³ Let not him who bends his bow bend it,
    and let him not rise up in his scale-armor,
and do not spare her young men;
    utterly destroy all her host.
⁴ Thus the slain will fall in the land of the Chaldeans,
    and those who are thrust through in her streets.
⁵ For Israel has not been forsaken, nor Judah,
    by his God, the Lord of Hosts,
though their land was filled with sin
    against the Holy One of Israel.