<p class="poetry">but when the hot wind<n id="1" /> blows by, it disappears,p> <p class="poetry">and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.p>

<p class="poetry">Those who pass by will not say,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;May you experience the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s blessing!p> <p class="poetry">We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">when he gave the sea his decreep> <p class="poetry">that the waters should not pass over his command,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when he marked out the foundations of the earth,p>

<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">Banish<n id="1" /> emotional stress<n id="2" /> from your mind.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and put away pain<n id="4" /> from your body;<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">for youth<n id="6" /> and the prime of life<n id="7" /> are fleeting.<n id="8" />p>

<p class="poetry">His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees<n id="1" /> yielding<n id="2" /> perfume.p> <p class="poetry">His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh.p>

<p class="poetry">They went through the pass,p> <p class="poetry">spent the night at Geba.p> <p class="poetry">Ramah trembled,p> <p class="poetry">Gibeah of Saul ran away.p>

<p class="poetry">The earth is defiled by<n id="1" /> its inhabitants,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for they have violated laws,p> <p class="poetry">disregarded the regulation,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and broken the permanent treaty.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">But the horde of invaders will be like fine dust,p> <p class="poetry">the horde of tyrants<n id="1" /> like chaff that is blown away.p> <p class="poetry">It will happen suddenly, in a flash.p>

<p class="poetry">Highways are empty,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">there are no travelers.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Treaties are broken,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">witnesses are despised,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">human life is treated with disrespect.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you say, Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">Why do you say, Israel,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is not aware of what is happening to me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">My God is not concerned with my vindication&#8221;?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Pick up millstones and grind flour!p> <p class="poetry">Remove your veil,p> <p class="poetry">strip off your skirt,p> <p class="poetry">expose your legs,p> <p class="poetry">cross the streams!p>

<p class="poetry">You were once abandonedp> <p class="poetry">and despised, with no one passing through,p> <p class="poetry">but I will make you<n id="1" /> a permanent source of pridep> <p class="poetry">and joy to coming generations.p>

<p class="poetry">I will make you serve your enemies<n id="1" /> in a land that you know nothing about.p> <p class="poetry">For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">So their land will become an object of horror.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">People will forever hiss out their scorn over it.p> <p class="poetry">All who pass that way will be filled with horrorp> <p class="poetry">and will shake their heads in derision.<n id="2" />p>

<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>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin;<n id="1" /> I will cut off<n id="2" /> from it the one who passes through or returns.

The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

<p class="bodytext">When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet,<n id="1" /> and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.