Why did thou flee secretly, and creep away from me, and did not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp,

And he shall take away its crop with the filth of it, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes.

And these are those which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind,

These are those which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

Whatever goes upon the belly, and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat, for they are an abomination.

All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grape-vine, from the kernels even to the husk.

and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee.

butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat, and of the blood of the grape thou drank wine.

Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?

Thou make darkness, and it is night, during which all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean, but by the strength of the ox is much increase.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and he will take away [and] cut down the spreading branches.

We grope for the wall like the blind. Yea, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the twilight. [We are] as dead men in desolate places.

Thus says LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine. Turn again thy hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.

And the measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.

If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough?

Thus says lord LORD: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it. I will crop off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs, and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain.

so that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men who are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence. And the mo

If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how thou are cut off!), would they not steal [only] till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

Woe is me! For I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat. My soul desires the first ripe fig.

to search for the Lord, if indeed perhaps they might grope for him and find him, although being not far from each one of us.

And when he said this, there developed a conflict of the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the group was divided.

And they found me neither in the temple disputing against any man, nor making a gang of a group, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.

for from these are those who creep into houses, and take captive petty women laden with sins, being led away by various impulses,