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Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

For the land of my people in which thorns and briars will come up; Indeed, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city.

Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

For the palace has been neglected, the populated city abandoned. Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever, A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,

Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high, And the wilderness becomes a fertile field, And the fertile field is considered as a forest.

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness will remain in the fertile field.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

And the work of righteousness will be peace, And the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Then my people will live in a peaceful settlement, In secure dwellings, and in undisturbed resting places;

And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

And it will hail when the forest comes down, And the city will be utterly laid low.

When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters, Who let the ox and the donkey out freely.

Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.