¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

¹⁶ Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.

³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of `God's' mouth shall he go away.

²⁴ Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

⁹ Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

¹ For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

¹⁹ My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch;

³ I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

⁴ His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them: