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.

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

And now ¹  they are tearing down ²  all its engravings ³  with axes ⁴  and crowbars. ⁵ 

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

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

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 

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

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

Other seeds fell among the thorns, ¹  and they grew up and choked them. ² 

Other seed fell among the thorns, ¹  and they grew up with it and choked ²  it.

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.

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 

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.

So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles ¹  sharpened.