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Fall rams by the thousand, fattened buck-goats by the ten thousand, will the Lord be better pleased? Shall gift of first-born for wrong-doing atone, body’s fruit for soul’s assoiling? (Micah 6, 7)
Forgotten, the high lords, forgotten, the princelings,✻ as they had been locusts, and brood of locusts, that cling to yonder hedge-row in the chill of morning, and are gone, once the sun is up, who knows whither? (Nahum 3, 17)
Plunderers all; eager as the sirocco their onset, whirling away, like sand-storm, their captives.✻ (Habakkuk 1, 9)
One day, what a by-word they will make of him! What riddling taunts shall be hurled at him! As here follows:So thou wouldst hoard up the possessions that are none of thine, load thyself with base dross,✻ and it should go on for ever? (Habakkuk 2, 6)
I saw the Ethiop quail in his tent,✻ the dwellings of Madian astir with terror. (Habakkuk 3, 7)
sun and moon linger in their dwelling-place;✻ so bright thy arrows volley, with such sheen of lightning glances thy spear. (Habakkuk 3, 11)
Such was the tale that set my whole frame trembling; at the rumour of it my lips quivered with fear; there was a faintness overcame my whole being, my steps faltered as I went. Now with tranquil heart let me await this day of doom; upon the enemies of our people it is destined to fall.✻ (Habakkuk 3, 16)
Flocks shall lie down there … all the wild things of earth; bittern and hedgehog make their dwelling in its doorways, bird-song there shall be in the windows, and raven perched on lintel; so ebbs the strength of it. (Zephaniah 2, 14)
Short work I have made of other nations; crumbling battlements, unfrequented streets, with never a foot-fall, their cities lie ruined and forlorn, with none to dwell in them; (Zephaniah 3, 6)
and with that, my answer came from him who stood among the myrtle-trees, These have gone out on the Lord’s errand, patrolling the earth. (Zechariah 1, 10)
When next I looked up, I saw a man there that carried a measuring-line; (Zechariah 2, 1)
There be nations a many that shall rally that day to the Lord’s side; they, too, shall be people of mine, but with thee shall be my dwelling.Doubt there shall be none it was the Lord of hosts sent me to thy aid.✻ (Zechariah 2, 11)
