The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.

You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new.

When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

David said to the priest, "Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers' equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!"

Many people profess their loyalty, but a faithful person -- who can find?

So tell them: 'This is a nation that has not obeyed the Lord their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.