And it will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, Both soul and body; And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.

Then the rest of the trees of his forest Will be so few in number That a child may write them.

" In that day it shall come to pass [That] the glory of Jacob will wane, And the fatness of his flesh grow lean.

It shall be as when the harvester gathers the grain, And reaps the heads with his arm; It shall be as he who gathers heads of grain In the Valley of Rephaim.

When they are diminished and brought low Through oppression, affliction and sorrow,

But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword"; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

"God [is] not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

'And this [shall be] a sign to you,' says the LORD, 'that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for adversity.'

Yet surely My words and My statutes, Which I commanded My servants the prophets, Did they not overtake your fathers? "So they returned and said: 'Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, According to our ways and according to our deeds, So He has dealt with us.' " ' "

"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.