<t /><p class="poetry">In just a very short time<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Lebanon will turn into an orchard,p> <p class="poetry">and the orchard will be considered a forest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Then the desert will become an orchardp> <p class="poetry">and the orchard will be considered a forest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Justice will settle down in the desertp> <p class="poetry">and fairness will live in the orchard.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The splendor of his forest and his orchardp> <p class="poetry">will be completely destroyed,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as when a sick man&#8217;s life ebbs away.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desertp> <p class="poetry">and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> had brought this all aboutp> <p class="poetry">because of his blazing anger.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If you present a grain offering of first ripe grain to the <sc>Lordsc>, you must present your grain offering of first ripe grain as soft kernels roasted in fire &#8211; crushed bits of fresh grain.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet<n id="1" /> &#8211; twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain.<n id="2" /> Elisha<n id="3" /> said, &#8220;Set it before the people so they may eat.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Joy and happiness disappear from the orchards,p> <p class="poetry">and in the vineyards no one rejoices or shouts;p> <p class="poetry">no one treads out juice in the wine vats<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I have brought the joyful shouts to an end.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I brought you<n id="1" /> into a fertile landp> <p class="poetry">so you could enjoy<n id="2" /> its fruits and its rich bounty.p> <p class="poetry">But when you entered my land, you defiled it;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you made the land I call my own<n id="4" /> loathsome to me.p>

<p class="poetry">Joy and gladness will disappearp> <p class="poetry">from the fruitful land of Moab.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will stop the flow of wine from the winepresses.p> <p class="poetry">No one will stomp on the grapes there and shout for joy.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The shouts there will be shouts of soldiers,p> <p class="poetry">not the shouts of those making wine.<n id="3" />p>

You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or fresh grain until this very day,<n id="1" /> until you bring the offering of your God. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations<n id="2" /> in all the places where you live.p>

<p class="poetry">Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;With my many chariots<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I climbed up the high mountains,p> <p class="poetry">the slopes of Lebanon.p> <p class="poetry">I cut down its tall cedars,p> <p class="poetry">and its best evergreens.p> <p class="poetry">I invaded its most remote regions,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">its thickest woods.p>

<p class="poetry">Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;With my many chariots I climbed upp> <p class="poetry">the high mountains,p> <p class="poetry">the slopes of Lebanon.p> <p class="poetry">I cut down its tall cedarsp> <p class="poetry">and its best evergreens.p> <p class="poetry">I invaded its most remote regions,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">its thickest woods.p>