⁹ Should I not punish them for this?”^(A)
    declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge^(B) myself
    on such a nation as this?

¹⁹ Listen to the cry of my people
    from a land far away:^(A)
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
    Is her King^(B) no longer there?”

“Why have they aroused^(C) my anger with their images,
    with their worthless^(D) foreign idols?”^(E)