(Kaf) My eyes are worn out from weeping; my stomach is in knots. My heart is poured out on the ground due to the destruction of my helpless people; children and infants faint in the town squares.

(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the desert.

Pleasant fields

For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,

On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

General references

Esau said to his father, "Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!" Then Esau wept loudly.

The new wine dries up, the vines shrivel up, all those who like to celebrate groan.