<p class="poetry">You will plant crops, but will not harvest them;p> <p class="poetry">you will squeeze oil from the olives,<n id="1" /> but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will eat, but not be satisfied.p> <p class="poetry">Even if you have the strength<n id="1" /> to overtake some prey,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you will not be able to carry it away;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">if you do happen to carry away something,p> <p class="poetry">I will deliver it over to the sword.p>

<p class="poetry">But they do not know what the <sc>Lordsc> is planning;p> <p class="poetry">they do not understand his strategy.p> <p class="poetry">He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed<n id="1" /> at the threshing floor.p>

<p class="poetry">I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst;p> <p class="poetry">you will no longer worship what your own hands made.p>

<p class="poetry">Someday these sinners will cry to the <sc>Lordsc> for help,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but he will not answer them.p> <p class="poetry">He will hide his face from them at that time,p> <p class="poetry">because they have done such wicked deeds.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore the <sc>Lordsc> says this: &#8220;Look, I am devising disaster for this nation!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You will no longer<n id="3" /> walk proudly,p> <p class="poetry">for it will be a time of catastrophe.p>

<p class="poetry">He will arbitrate<n id="1" /> between many peoplesp> <p class="poetry">and settle disputes between many<n id="2" /> distant nations.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will beat their swords into plowshares,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and their spears into pruning hooks.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Nations will not use weapons<n id="6" /> against other nations,p> <p class="poetry">and they will no longer train for war.p>

<p class="poetry">Those survivors from<n id="1" /> Jacob will live<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in the midst of many nations.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will be like the dew the <sc>Lordsc> sends,p> <p class="poetry">like the rain on the grass,p> <p class="poetry">that does not hope for men to comep> <p class="poetry">or wait around for humans to arrive.<n id="4" />p>