as water wears away stones, its out-pouring washes away the soil of the earth – so You have destroyed the expectancy of man.
“And see, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heavens – all that is on the earth is to die.
But a falling mountain crumbles away, and a rock is moved from its place,
Where then is my expectancy? As for my expectancy, who would see it?
He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; and uproots my expectancy like a tree.
who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?
For what is the expectancy of the defiled one, when He does cut off, when Eloah takes away his life?
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without expectancy.
And He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Yisra’ĕ