⁷ a reaper cannot fill his hands with it,^(A)
    nor one who gathers fill his arms.

⁷ “They sow the wind
    and reap the whirlwind.^(A)
The stalk has no head;
    it will produce no flour.^(B)
Were it to yield grain,
    foreigners would swallow it up.^(C)

¹⁰ You have forgotten^(A) God your Savior;^(B)
    you have not remembered the Rock,^(C) your fortress.^(D)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
    and plant imported vines,^(E)
11 though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
    and on the morning^(F) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest^(G) will be as nothing^(H)
    in the day of disease and incurable^(I) pain.^(J)

⁶ Those who go out weeping,^(A)
    carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
    carrying sheaves with them.