¹⁰ For forty years^(A) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,^(B)
    and they have not known my ways.’^(C)

¹⁷ “Israel is a scattered flock^(A)
    that lions^(B) have chased away.
The first to devour^(C) them
    was the king^(D) of Assyria;
the last to crush their bones^(E)
    was Nebuchadnezzar^(F) king^(G) of Babylon.”