⁶ As to the worthless -- As a thorn driven away `are' all of them, For -- not by hand are they taken;

¹⁸ and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;

¹³ Men, sons of worthlessness, have gone out of thy midst, and they force away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known --

¹² and the sons of Eli `are' sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah.

¹ And there hath been called there a man of worthlessness, and his name `is' Sheba, son of Bichri, a Benjamite, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and saith, `We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel.'

² So `is' my friend among the daughters!

¹² And peoples have been `as' burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.

⁶ `And thou, son of man, thou art not afraid of them, yea, of their words thou art not afraid, for briers and thorns are with thee, and near scorpions thou art dwelling, of their words thou art not afraid, and of their faces thou art not affrighted, for they `are' a rebellious house,

⁴¹ the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,