⁵ Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

²³ Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

⁵ Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?

⁶ They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

⁷ Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.

¹² And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

²⁸ So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

³ Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

¹ A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria like an ass going by himself; Ephraim has given money to get lovers.

⁶ For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.

²⁴ An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.

¹⁶ For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

¹⁴ He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

⁶ There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.

⁵ Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

⁴⁰ By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.

¹² And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.