²⁴ Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!

⁴⁰ He is pouring contempt upon nobles, And causeth them to wander in vacancy -- no way.

²⁰ Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

⁴ For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

⁴ They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.

⁹ And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.

¹⁰ Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

¹ The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst.

¹⁶ his heart from man's is changed, and the heart of a beast is given to him, and seven times pass over him;

³³ `In that hour the thing hath been fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar, and from men he is driven, and the herb as oxen he eateth, and by the dew of the heavens his body is wet, till that his hair as eagles' hath become great, and his nails as birds.'

¹¹ And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- `to' Asshur they have gone.