Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
Say you to your brothers, ‘Ammi’ and to your sisters, ‘Ruhamah’.
“Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the water. It was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.
I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples. I will judge you there face to face.
A father of orphans, defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling.
A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
“The secret things belong to Adonai our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever—in order to do all the words of this Torah.
He exiled to Babylon those who had escaped the sword and they became slaves to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia—