At the designated time ¹  Cain brought some of the fruit of the ground for an offering ²  to the Lord.

Whirring locusts ¹  will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

For she leaves ¹  her eggs on the ground, and lets them be warmed on the soil.

They were destroyed at Endor; ¹  their corpses were like manure ²  on the ground.

The godly bask in the light; the morally upright experience joy. ¹ 

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

Keen insight ¹  wins ²  favor, but the conduct ³  of the unfaithful is harsh. ⁴ 

The filthy, ¹  stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished! ² 

We also accept responsibility for ¹  bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the LORD.

You saturate ¹  its furrows, and soak ²  its plowed ground. ³  With rain showers you soften its soil, ⁴  and make its crops grow. ⁵ 

Mourn ¹  over the land of my people, which is overgrown with thorns and briers, and over all the once-happy houses ²  in the city filled with revelry. ³ 

I will have compassion on you so that he in turn will have mercy on you and allow you to return to your land.’

Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

Be distressed, ¹  farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

Then I will stop the plague ¹  from ruining your crops, ²  and the vine will not lose its fruit before harvest,” says the Lord who rules over all.

But he has no root in himself and does not endure; ¹  when ²  trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

But ¹  they have no root in themselves and do not endure. ²  Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit. ¹ 

Can the papyrus plant grow tall ¹  where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish ²  without water?

While they are still beginning to flower ¹  and not ripe for cutting, ²  they can wither away ³  faster ⁴  than any grass! ⁵