²³ And your head-dresses will be on your heads and your shoes on your feet: there will be no sorrow or weeping; but you will be wasting away in the punishment of your evil-doing, and you will be looking at one another in wonder.

³⁹ And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

¹⁷ So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

¹⁰ And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life?

¹⁵ When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

⁶⁴ Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

¹¹ We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.