May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.

It was reported to the family of David, “Syria has allied with Ephraim.” They and their people were emotionally shaken, just as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

The earth will stagger around like a drunk; it will sway back and forth like a hut in a windstorm. Its sin will weigh it down, and it will fall and never get up again.

“For look, I am giving a command and I will shake the family of Israel together with all the nations. It will resemble a sieve being shaken, when not even a pebble falls to the ground.

I am disdained by them. When they see me, they shake their heads.

Lest she should make level the path leading to life, her paths are unstable but she does not know it.

The sound of their voices shook the door frames, and the temple was filled with smoke.

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

Do not strike them dead suddenly, because then my people might forget the lesson. Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down, O Lord who shields us!

They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.

נ (Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.

Then a hand touched me and set me on my hands and knees.

All your fortifications will be like fig trees with first-ripe fruit: If they are shaken, their figs will fall into the mouth of the eater!

When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.”

Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”

All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking – and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.

So the Lord’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the Lord was finished.