He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
They wander about for food and growl if they do not get their fill.
His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated— of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.
A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.
So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.
Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation; they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food.
He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
“Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine. The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
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