⁵ and Ahab saith unto Obadiah, `Go through the land, unto all fountains of waters, and unto all the brooks, if so be we find hay, and keep alive horse and mule, and do not cut off any of the cattle.'

¹⁴ Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,

⁵ For even the hind in the field hath brought forth -- to forsake `it!' For there hath been no grass.

⁶ And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.

¹⁸ How have cattle sighed! Perplexed have been droves of oxen, For there is no pasture for them, Also droves of sheep have been desolated.

²² Do not fear, O cattle of the field! For sprung forth have pastures of a wilderness, For the tree hath borne its fruit, Fig-tree and vine have given their strength!

¹⁷ Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls.

²⁰ for to vanity was the creation made subject -- not of its will, but because of Him who did subject `it' -- in hope,

²¹ that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

²² for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.