"Therefore their inhabitantswere shortof strength,They were dismayedand putto shame;They were [as] the vegetationof the fieldand [as] the greenherb,[As] grasson the housetopsis scorchedbeforeit is grownup.
Then behold,sevenears,thinand scorchedby the eastwind,sproutedup afterthem.
Therefore their inhabitantswere shortof strength,They were dismayedand putto shame;They were as the vegetationof the fieldand as the greenherb,As grasson the housetopsis scorchedbeforeit is grownup.
As for man,his daysare like grass;As a flowerof the field,sohe flourishes.
Let them be like grassupon the housetops,Whichwithersbeforeit growsup;
For they will witherquicklylike the grassAnd fadelike the greenherb.
That when the wickedsproutedup likegrassAnd allwho didiniquityflourished,It [was only] that they might be destroyedforevermore.
In that daythe Egyptianswill becomelike women,and they will trembleand be in dreadbecauseof the wavingof the handof the LORDof hosts,whichHe is going to waveoverthem.
For even ifyou had defeatedthe entirearmyof Chaldeanswho were fightingagainstyou, and there were [only] woundedmenleftamong them, eachmanin his tent,they would riseup and burnthiscitywith fire.'"
"Goup through her vinerowsand destroy,But do not executea completedestruction;Stripawayher branches,For they are not the LORD'S.
"And you have spokenarrogantlyagainstMe and have multipliedyour wordsagainstMe; I have heard[it]."
"Onlydo not rebelagainst the LORD;and do not fearthe peopleof the land,for they will be our prey.Their protectionhas been removedfrom them, and the LORDis with us; do not fearthem."
"WhatI tellyou in the darkness,speakin the light;and whatyou hear[whispered] in [your] ear,proclaimupon the housetops.
For, "ALLFLESHIS LIKEGRASS,AND ALLITS GLORYLIKETHE FLOWEROF GRASS.THE GRASSWITHERS,AND THE FLOWERFALLS OFF,
