And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go into the land, to all springs of water, and to all brooks: perhaps we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, so that we do not lose all the beasts.
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness: they are all of them to me like Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof like Gomorrah.
O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have struck them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your downfall shall be in the midst of you; and you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver will I give up to the sword.
You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.