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23 and seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouting after them,

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15 Although he may flourish among rushes,[a]
    the east wind shall come, a blast from the Lord,
    rising from the wilderness,
and his fountain shall dry up;
    his spring shall be parched.
It shall strip his treasury
    of every precious thing.(A)

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  1. 13.15 Or among brothers

16 Ephraim is stricken,
    their root is dried up,
    they shall bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth,
    I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.(A)

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For they sow the wind,
    and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
    it shall yield no meal;
if it were to yield,
    foreigners would devour it.(A)

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Let them be like the grass on the housetops
    that withers before it grows up,(A)
with which reapers do not fill their hands
    or binders of sheaves their arms,

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26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
    are dismayed and confounded;
they have become like plants of the field
    and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops
    that is scorched before the east wind.[a](A)

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  1. 19.26 Cn Compare Isa 37.27 Q ms: Meaning of MT uncertain

Then seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them.

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