Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and to every wadi. Perhaps we’ll find grass so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to destroy any cattle.”(A)

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How long will the land mourn(A)
and the grass of every field wither?
Because of the evil of its residents,
animals and birds have been swept away,(B)
for the people have said,
“He cannot see what our end will be.”[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:4 LXX reads see our ways

Even the doe in the field
gives birth and abandons her fawn
since there is no grass.
Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights(A)
panting for air like jackals.
Their eyes fail
because there are no green plants.

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For this reason the land mourns,(A)
and everyone who lives in it languishes,
along with the wild animals(B) and the birds of the sky;
even the fish of the sea disappear.(C)

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