¹⁰ It has been planted,^(A) but will it thrive? Will it not wither completely when the east wind strikes it—wither away in the plot where it grew?^(B)’”

¹² These people are blemishes at your love feasts,^(A) eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves.^(B) They are clouds without rain,^(C) blown along by the wind;^(D) autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted^(E)—twice dead.

⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.^(A)

²⁰ In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots.

¹⁹ Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.^(A)

“This is a lament^(H) and is to be used as a lament.”