<p class="poetry">I passed by the field of a sluggard,p> <p class="poetry">by the vineyard of one who lacks wisdom.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The produce of the land is seized<n id="1" /> by all of them,p> <p class="poetry">even the king is served<n id="2" /> by the fields.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Mourn over the field,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">over the delightful fieldsp> <p class="poetry">and the fruitful vine!p>

<p class="poetry">They will surround Jerusalem<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like men guarding a field<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because they have rebelled against me,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Do not go out into the countryside.p> <p class="poetry">Do not travel on the roads.p> <p class="poetry">For the enemy is there with sword in hand.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They are spreading terror everywhere.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn<n id="1" /> in the fieldp> <p class="poetry">because there is no grass.p>

<p class="poetry">and on the mountains and in the fields.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder.p> <p class="poetry">I will give it away as the price<n id="2" /> for the sins you have committed throughout your land.p>

<p class="poetry">Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon?p> <p class="poetry">Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow?<n id="1" />p>

We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Johanan and all the officers of the troops that had been hiding in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1496; (<i>Teti>)p> <p class="poetry">Those who died by the sword<n id="1" /> are better offp> <p class="poetry">than those who die of hunger,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">those who<n id="3" /> waste away,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">struck down<n id="5" /> from lack of<n id="6" /> food.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">He took one of the seedlings<n id="1" /> of the land,p> <p class="poetry">placed it in a cultivated plot;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">a shoot by abundant water,p> <p class="poetry">like a willow he planted it.p>

and her daughters<n id="1" /> who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals<n id="1" /> will walk<n id="2" /> on its branches.

They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.<n id="1" />

You will fall dead in the open field; for I have spoken, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">They<n id="1" /> utter empty words,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">taking<n id="3" /> false oaths and making empty<n id="4" /> agreements.p> <p class="poetry">Therefore legal disputes sprout upp> <p class="poetry">like poisonous weeds<n id="5" /> in the furrows of a plowed field.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Jacob fled to the country of Aram,p> <p class="poetry">then Israel worked<n id="1" /> to acquire a wife;p> <p class="poetry">he tended sheep to pay for her.p>

<p class="poetry">I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I will rip open their chests.p> <p class="poetry">I will devour them there like a lion &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">like a wild animal would tear them apart.p>

<p class="poetry">The crops of the fields<n id="1" /> have been destroyed.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished.p> <p class="poetry">The fresh wine has dried up;p> <p class="poetry">the olive oil languishes.p>