⁴³ I beat them as fine as the dust^(A) of the earth;
    I pounded and trampled^(B) them like mud^(C) in the streets.

⁵ then let my enemy pursue and overtake^(A) me;
    let him trample my life to the ground^(B)
    and make me sleep in the dust.^[a](C)

⁵ Now I will tell you
    what I am going to do to my vineyard:
I will take away its hedge,
    and it will be destroyed;^(A)
I will break down its wall,^(B)
    and it will be trampled.^(C)

²⁶ “Have you not heard?
    Long ago I ordained^(A) it.
In days of old I planned^(B) it;
    now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
    into piles of stone.^(C)
27 Their people, drained of power,
    are dismayed and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,
like grass^(D) sprouting on the roof,^(E)
    scorched^[a] before it grows up.