And the Raḇ
And He said to me, “See, I am giving you the dung of cattle instead of human dung, and you shall prepare your bread over it.”
And יהוה said, “Even so the children of Yisra’ĕ
Those who ate delicacies Have been laid waste in the streets; Those who were brought up in scarlet Have embraced dunghills.
They mock and speak in the evil of oppression; They speak loftily.
And there was a great scarcity of food in Shomeron. And see, they besieged it until a donkey’s head went at eighty pieces of silver, and one-fourth of a kab of dove droppings for five pieces of silver.
And the sovereign of Ashshur sent the Tartan, and the Raḇ
Then said Elyaqim son of Ḥ
But the Raḇ
The tongue of the infant has clung To the roof of its mouth for thirst; Children asked for bread, No one breaks it for them.
