4:14 He called out loudly 1 as follows: 2
‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches!
Strip off its foliage
and scatter its fruit!
Let the animals flee from under it
and the birds from its branches!
4:12 Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful;
on it there was food enough for all.
Under it the wild animals 4 used to seek shade,
and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest.
All creatures 5 used to feed themselves from it.
1 tn Aram “in strength.”
2 tn Aram “and thus he was saying.”
3 tn Aram “the beasts of the field” (also in vv. 23, 25, 32).
5 tn Aram “the beasts of the field.”
6 tn Aram “all flesh.”