²³ And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:

⁶ And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.

²⁶ This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

⁶ Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

⁷ He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

⁷ For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

¹⁶ The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.

¹⁵ Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.