²³ and, behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

⁶ Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

²⁶ Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.

⁶ Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;

⁷ With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

⁷ For they sow the wind, And they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

¹⁶ Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."

¹⁵ Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, The breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; And his spring will become dry, And his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.