²⁴ Who handed Jacob over to become loot,
    and Israel to the plunderers?^(A)
Was it not the Lord,^(B)
    against whom we have sinned?
For they would not follow^(C) his ways;
    they did not obey his law.^(D)

²⁵ So he poured out on them his burning anger,^(A)
    the violence of war.
It enveloped them in flames,^(B) yet they did not understand;^(C)
    it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.^(D)