<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">The land<n id="1" /> dries up<n id="2" /> and withers away;p> <p class="poetry">the forest of Lebanon shrivels up<n id="3" /> and decays.p> <p class="poetry">Sharon<n id="4" /> is like the desert;<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Bashan and Carmel<n id="6" /> are parched.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">He shouts a battle cry<n id="1" /> against the sea<n id="2" /> and makes it dry up;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he makes all the rivers<n id="4" /> run dry.p> <p class="poetry">Bashan and Carmel wither;<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">the blossom of Lebanon withers.p>

<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;

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>