They come all to spoil: out of them cometh an east wind, which bloweth and gathereth their captives, like as the sand.

The Lord answered me:

Write down this vision;
clearly inscribe it on tablets
so one may easily read it.

For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

Though, the fig-tree, should not blossom, and there be no sprouting in the vines, the yield of the olive, should have deceived, and, the fields, not have brought forth food, - the flock, have been consumed out of the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls,