The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud ¹  did not pull the sword out of his belly. ² 

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

then ¹  let my arm fall from the shoulder, ²  let my arm be broken off at the socket. ³ 

Cut sharply on the right! Swing to ¹  the left, wherever your edge ²  is appointed to strike.

It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; ¹  it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. ² 

They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest. ¹ 

He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply. ¹ 

When ¹  the plants sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

You bring their lives to an end and they “fall asleep.” ¹  In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields. ¹ 

So ¹  the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

Then ¹  another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

If an iron axhead ¹  is blunt and a workman ²  does not sharpen ³  its edge, ⁴  he must exert a great deal of effort; ⁵  so wisdom has the advantage of giving success.

The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his intense anger. ¹ 

Another ¹  angel, who was in charge of ²  the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to the angel ³  who had the sharp sickle, “Use ⁴  your sharp sickle and gather ⁵  the clusters of grapes ⁶  off the vine of the earth, ⁷  because its grapes ⁸  are now ripe.” ⁹ 

And do this ¹  to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification ²  on them; then have them shave ³  all their body ⁴  and wash ⁵  their clothes, and so purify themselves. ⁶ 

When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, ¹  but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain.

Kill all the farmers who sow the seed in the land of Babylon. Kill all those who wield the sickle at harvest time. ¹  Let all the foreigners return to their own people. Let them hurry back to their own lands to escape destruction by that enemy army. ² 

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ¹  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ²  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.