But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit. Her strong branches were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

Fire has gone out from a staff of her branches and devoured her fruit, so that she has no strong staff; a scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

It is sharpened to slaughter and butcher, polished to flash like lightning! Should we then make mirth? It despises the scepter of My son, as every tree.

because it is a testing. And what if the sword despises even the scepter? It shall be no more, declares the Lord Jehovah.

The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the cleansing of the peoples.

He makes water flow from his buckets, and his seed in many waters, his king is higher than Agag, and his kingdom is exalted.

He has crouched, he has lain down as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall arouse him? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.

There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the region beyond the River; and tax, tribute, and toll were paid to them.

And thus they returned an answer to us, saying: We are the servants of the God of Heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and completed.

Ask of Me, and I will give the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession.

You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

and the vineyard which Your right hand has planted, and the son that You made strong for Yourself.

Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, upon the son of man whom You have made strong for Yourself.

Jehovah shall send the staff of Your strength out of Zion. Rule in the midst of Your enemies.

And a Branch shall go out from the trunk of Jesse, and a Shoot shall grow out of his roots.

Behold, Assyria was like a cedar in Lebanon, with fine branches that shaded the forest, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

The tree became great and strong, and its height reached to the heavens, and it was visible to the ends of all the earth.

The tree that you saw, which became great and strong, whose height reached to the heavens and was visible to all the earth,

and its leaves being beautiful, and its fruit plentiful, and food for all being in it, under which the beasts of the field lived, and in its branches the birds of the heavens had their home: