but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

Those who pass by will not say, “May you experience the Lord’s blessing! We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the Lord.”

when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of one who lacks wisdom.

Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh.

They went through the pass, spent the night at Geba. Ramah trembled, Gibeah of Saul ran away.

The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.

But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust, the horde of tyrants like chaff that is blown away. It will happen suddenly, in a flash.

Highways are empty, there are no travelers. Treaties are broken, witnesses are despised, human life is treated with disrespect.

Why do you say, Jacob, Why do you say, Israel, “The Lord is not aware of what is happening to me, My God is not concerned with my vindication”?

Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!

You were once abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, but I will make you a permanent source of pride and joy to coming generations.

I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.”

So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it.

“I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.