It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.
And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand:
and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.