2 Why is it that, when I came in, there was no one?*+ When I called, there was nobody answering?+ Has my hand become in fact so short that it cannot redeem,+ or is there in me no power to deliver? Look! With my rebuke+ I dry up the sea;+ I make rivers a wilderness.+ Their fish stink due to there being no water, and they die because of thirst.+

4 He is rebuking the sea,+ and he dries it up; and all the rivers he actually makes run dry.+

Baʹshan and Carʹmel have withered,+ and the very blossom of Lebʹa·non has withered.