He is swift on the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.
If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set it on your heart.
Pass through your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no more strength.
The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; but He blesses the home of the just.
Let their table become a snare before them; and to those at ease a trap.
Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
They were seized, but there was not time; their foundation was poured out by a flood;
They have passed away like the swift ships; like the eagle who swoops on the prey.
I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.
or darkness, so that you cannot see; and a flood of waters covers you.
They reap his fodder in the field; and they gather the grapes of the wicked.
They press out oil between their walls; they tread their winepresses, and still suffer thirst.
Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.