<p class="poetry">I will threaten Ariel,p> <p class="poetry">and she will mourn intenselyp> <p class="poetry">and become like an altar hearth<n id="1" /> before me.p>

When she has left him<n id="1" /> she may go and become someone else&#8217;s wife.

From that time<n id="1" /> when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

<p class="poetry">Babylonia<n id="1" /> will be plundered.p> <p class="poetry">Those who plunder it will take all they want,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The earth will become desolate<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">because of what its inhabitants have done.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The seacoast<n id="1" /> will be used as pasture lands<n id="2" /> by the shepherdsp> <p class="poetry">and as pens for their flocks.p>

I will place<n id="1" /> my rainbow<n id="2" /> in the clouds, and it will become<n id="3" /> a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

They must indeed be circumcised,<n id="1" /> whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant<n id="2" /> will be visible in your flesh as a permanent<n id="3" /> reminder.

You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come<n id="1" /> halfway up the altar.<n id="2" />

they must wash<n id="1" /> their hands and their feet so that they do not die. And this<n id="2" /> will be a perpetual ordinance for them and for their descendants<n id="3" /> throughout their generations.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

You must put pure frankincense<n id="1" /> on each row,<n id="2" /> and it will become a memorial portion<n id="3" /> for the bread, a gift<n id="4" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>.

You may have the Sabbath produce<n id="1" /> of the land to eat &#8211; you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,<n id="2" />

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword<n id="1" /> after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.p>

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

They charged<n id="1" /> two-thirds of a shekel<n id="2" /> to sharpen plowshares and cutting instruments, and a third of a shekel<n id="3" /> to sharpen picks and axes, and to set ox goads.

<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about Damascus:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Look, Damascus is no longer a city,p> <p class="poetry">it is a heap of ruins!p>

<p class="poetry">Edom&#8217;s<n id="1" /> streams will be turned into pitchp> <p class="poetry">and her soil into brimstone;p> <p class="poetry">her land will become burning pitch.p>

<p class="poetry">Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns;p> <p class="poetry">thickets and weeds will grow<n id="1" /> in her fortified cities.p> <p class="poetry">Jackals will settle there;p> <p class="poetry">ostriches will live there.<n id="2" />p>

Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat.<n id="1" /> There will not be any survivors to scare them away.

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Edom will become an object of horror.p> <p class="poetry">All who pass by it will be filled with horror;p> <p class="poetry">they will hiss out their scornp> <p class="poetry">because of all the disasters that have happened to it.<n id="1" />p>