¹⁴ So, in one day, the Lord will destroy Israel, both its head and its tail. He will cut down both palm branch and reed. ¹⁵ The head is their leaders and important people. The tail is the prophets who teach lies.

¹⁰ They had poison in their tails, like scorpions. They had power to attack people with their tails and to cause them pain for five months.