And I punished them oft in every Synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Yhudah which are in Bavel, saying, YY make thee like TZidkiyah-yahu and like Achav, whom the king of Bavel roasted in the fire;
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.