8:20 “They cry, 1 ‘Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, 2
and still we have not been delivered.’
46:16 I will make many stumble. 3
They will fall over one another in their hurry to flee. 4
They will say, ‘Get up!
Let’s go back to our own people.
Let’s go back to our homelands
because the enemy is coming to destroy us.’ 5
46:21 Even her mercenaries 6
will prove to be like pampered, 7 well-fed calves.
For they too will turn and run away.
They will not stand their ground
when 8 the time for them to be destroyed comes,
the time for them to be punished.
50:16 Kill all the farmers who sow the seed in the land of Babylon.
Kill all those who wield the sickle at harvest time. 9
Let all the foreigners return to their own people.
Let them hurry back to their own lands
to escape destruction by that enemy army. 10
13:14 Like a frightened gazelle 11
or a sheep with no shepherd,
each will turn toward home, 12
each will run to his homeland.
47:15 They will disappoint you, 13
those you have so faithfully dealt with since your youth. 14
Each strays off in his own direction, 15
leaving no one to rescue you.”