²⁰ but if you resist and rebel,^(A)
    you will be devoured by the sword.”^(B)
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.^(C)

¹⁹ God is not human,^(A) that he should lie,^(B)
    not a human being, that he should change his mind.^(C)
Does he speak and then not act?
    Does he promise^(D) and not fulfill?

⁴ “In that day^(A) the glory^(B) of Jacob will fade;
    the fat of his body will waste^(C) away.
⁵ It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,
    gathering^(D) the grain in their arms—
as when someone gleans heads of grain^(E)
    in the Valley of Rephaim.^(F)

¹⁸ The splendor of his forests^(A) and fertile fields
    it will completely destroy,^(B)
    as when a sick person wastes away.
¹⁹ And the remaining trees of his forests^(C) will be so few^(D)
    that a child could write them down.

³⁹ Then their numbers decreased,^(A) and they were humbled^(B)
    by oppression, calamity and sorrow;