Then you shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and fell every good tree and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”

“Behold, this is the joy of His way;
And out of the dust others will spring.

Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,
And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

“Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.

And they will spring up among the grass
Like poplars by streams of water.’

Then Israel sang this song:
“Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well
Is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

“You are a garden spring,
A well of fresh water,
And streams flowing from Lebanon.”