And the waters retired from the earth, continually retiring; and in the course of a hundred and fifty days the waters abated.

They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.

My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:

I hearkened and heard: they speak not what is right; there is no man who repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Every one turneth to his course, like a horse rushing into the battle.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of execration the land mourneth. The pastures of the wilderness are dried up; for their course is evil, and their force is not right.

And after the course of years they shall join affinity; and the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make equitable conditions: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; and she shall be given up, she and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in those times.