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Will all these not take up ... saying, 'Woe ... taken?'
"All of these nations and peoples will certainly take up ... saying,'Woe ... taken.'"
take up a proverb and mockery, riddles
They will use the words later in the verse to mock him.
riddles
This is a question to which the one who asks knows the answer but hides it with figures of speech so that the other person needs to work hard to think of it.
Woe to the one increasing what is not his
"Woe to the one who claims for himself more and more things that do not belong to him"
For how long will you increase the weight of the pledges you have taken?
"For how long will you make yourself rich by extorting others?"