17 So he brought up against them the king of the Chal·deʹans,+ who proceeded to kill their young men with the sword+ in the house of their sanctuary,+ neither did he feel compassion for young man or virgin, old or decrepit.+ Everything He gave into his hand.

33 Woe to you who are despoiling, without you yourself being despoiled, and to you who are dealing treacherously, without [others] having dealt treacherously with you!*+ As soon as you have finished as a despoiler, you will be despoiled.+ As soon as you have done with dealing treacherously, they will deal treacherously with you.+

12 “‘And it must occur that when seventy years have been fulfilled+ I shall call to account against the king of Babylon and against that nation,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘their error, even against the land of the Chal·deʹans,+ and I will make it desolate wastes to time indefinite.+

17 “Israel is a scattered sheep.+ Lions themselves have done the dispersing.+ In the first instance the king of As·syrʹi·a has devoured him,+ and in this latter instance Neb·u·chad·rezʹzar the king of Babylon has gnawed on his bones.+

13 For the one that does not practice mercy will have [his] judgment without mercy.+ Mercy exults triumphantly over* judgment.