²³ Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

²⁸ Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yes, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldst not be satisfied.

³ Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thy anger.