and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah giveth you.
For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore thou plantest pleasant plants, and settest it with strange slips.
In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity; yet surely the justice (due) to me is with Jehovah, and my recompense with my God.
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.