4 that you must raise up this proverbial saying against the king of Babylon and say:

“How has the one driving [others] to work come to a stop,* the oppression* come to a stop!+

4 In that day one will raise up concerning YOU people a proverbial saying+ and will certainly lament a lamentation, even a lamentation.+ One will have to say: “We have positively been despoiled!+ The very portion of my people he alters.+ How he removes [it] from me! To the unfaithful one he apportions out our own fields.”