¹⁷ Though the fig tree may not blossom,
Nor fruit be on the vines;
Though the labor of the olive may fail,
And the fields yield no food;
Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,
And there be no herd in the stalls—

^9 (A)Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
¹⁰ Let his children ^[a]continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them ^[b]seek their bread also from their desolate places.
^11 (B)Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder his labor.
¹² Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
^13 (C)Let his ^[c]posterity be cut off,
And in the generation following let their ^(D)name be blotted out.

^16 (A)His roots are dried out below,
And his branch withers above.
^17 (B)The memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name ^[a]among the renowned.
^18 [b]He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased out of the world.
^19 (C)He has neither son nor posterity among his people,
Nor any remaining in his dwellings.