7 It has set my vine as an object of astonishment,+ and my fig tree as a stump.+ It has positively stripped it bare and thrown [it] away.+ The twigs of it have become white.

3 Ahead of it a fire has devoured,+ and behind it a flame consumes.+ Like the garden of Eʹden* the land is ahead of it;+ but behind it is a desolate wilderness, and there has also proved to be nothing thereof escaping.