⁶ For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

²³ [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

⁶ Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

⁶ Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

¹⁷ He shall not look at the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.

⁹ Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

¹¹ But the miry places of it, and the marshes of it, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

³⁰ For you shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, And as a garden that has no water.

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.

⁸ Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh."

⁷ Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.

⁴ The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

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

³¹ Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.

³² It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

³⁴ For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

¹¹ "Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?

¹² While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.

¹³ So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

¹⁹ and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it:

²⁰ it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.

² Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.

⁴⁵ Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.