²⁶ Their people, drained of power,^(A)
    are dismayed^(B) and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
    like tender green shoots,^(C)
like grass sprouting on the roof,
    scorched^(D) before it grows up.

¹² But it was uprooted^(A) in fury
    and thrown to the ground.
The east wind^(B) made it shrivel,
    it was stripped of its fruit;
its strong branches withered
    and fire consumed them.^(C)

¹⁵     even though he thrives^(A) among his brothers.
An east wind^(B) from the Lord will come,
    blowing in from the desert;
his spring will fail
    and his well dry up.^(C)
His storehouse will be plundered^(D)
    of all its treasures.