²⁷ Their inhabitants were powerless.
Overwhelmed and ashamed,
they were like plants in the field,
like fresh green grass, like grass on a housetop,
and like a field before it has grown.^[a]
28 But I know when you stand and when you sit,^[b]
when you go out and when you come in,
and how you rage wildly against me.
²⁹ Because you rage against me,
and because your arrogance has reached my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth,
and I will make you go back by the same way that you came.