6 And he will certainly become like a solitary tree in the desert plain and will not see when good comes;+ but he must reside in parched places* in the wilderness, in a salt country that is not inhabited.+

9 “Say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said: “Will it have success?+ Will not someone tear out its very roots+ and make its very fruit scaly? And must [not] all its freshly plucked sprouts become dry?+ It will become dry. Neither by a great arm nor by a multitudinous people will it have to be lifted up from its roots.

19 And he caught sight of a fig tree by the road and went to it, but he found nothing+ on it except leaves only, and he said to it: “Let no fruit come from you anymore forever.”+ And the fig tree withered instantly.