¹⁸ Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

¹⁶ `Cursed `art' thou in the city, and cursed `art' thou in the field.

¹⁷ `Cursed `is' thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

¹⁸ `Cursed `is' the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock.

¹⁹ `Cursed `art' thou in thy coming in, and cursed `art' thou in thy going out.

²⁰ `Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings `by' which thou hast forsaken Me.

²⁶ They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.

¹⁶ Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.

⁷ They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

²² Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence -- for a trap.

¹⁸ Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

³³ The curse of Jehovah `is' in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.

¹⁰ Pass through thy land as a brook, Daughter of Tarshish, there is no more a girdle.

² If ye hearken not, and if ye lay `it' not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying `it' to heart.