²⁶ Their inhabitants have become powerless,
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,^(A)
blasted by the east wind.^[a]

¹² But it was uprooted in fury,^(A)
thrown to the ground,
and the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branches were torn off and dried up;^(B)
fire consumed them.

¹⁵ Although he flourishes among his brothers,^[a](A)
an east wind will come,^(B)
a wind from the Lord rising up from the desert.
His water source will fail,
and his spring will run dry.^(C)
The wind^[b] will plunder the treasury^(D)
of every precious item.