⁶ Instead of the fountain of an ever-flowing river,
stirred up and defiled with blood^(A)

³ in order that those people, when they desired food,
might lose the least remnant of appetite^[a]
because of the odious creatures sent to them,
while your people,^[b] after suffering want a short time,
might partake of delicacies.^(A)

⁴ For it was necessary that upon those oppressors inescapable want should come,
while to these others it was merely shown how their enemies were being tormented.^(A)