I then said, “I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other’s flesh!”

And if those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.) ¹ 

Haran died in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans, ¹  while his father Terah was still alive. ² 

But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among ¹  the men who went to investigate the land, lived.

No Anakites were left in Israelite territory, though some remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

Then Naomi’s two sons, Mahlon and Kilion, also died. ¹  So the woman was left all alone – bereaved of her two children ²  as well as her husband!

He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. ¹ 

A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, ¹  like a hut ²  that a watchman has made.

For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, ¹  and it would uproot ²  all my harvest.

If you, O Lord, were to keep track of ¹  sins, O Lord, who could stand before you? ² 

He throws his hailstones ¹  like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends? ² 

The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, ¹  but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil ¹  and chasing the wind.

There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them. ¹ 

Just a handful of archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be left.” ¹  Indeed, ²  the Lord God of Israel has spoken.

י (Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women ¹  cooked their own children, who became their food, ²  when my people ³  were destroyed. ⁴ 

We have submitted ¹  to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat. ² 

But I will be different now to this remnant of my people from the way I was in those days,’ says the Lord who rules over all,