and

And the man went away thereafter. . . .

And righteous, as to birth pure, unenslaved,

And o'er thee shall kingfishers wail sad dirge.

And unto ages shalt be all destroyed

With a hot wind, and rave with many woes.

And thou from peoples ever far away

Shalt be all-desolate, and becoming thick

Perishing thou shalt then cry out and boil

And now for thee, O wretched Syria,

And ye shall see the entire land destroyed

And people with thy brine shalt thou destroy.

As flows like water, and it shall destroy

Shall burn the rivers, and exhaust the springs.

Are perishing. And then the wretched ones,

From under flesh, and burning in the spirit

Is always hard to put to test and not

To be deceived; and then earth, seized by force,

Through the changed air; and they shall undergo

And the Hebrews who put on the shaggy skins

And not mislead the just, who through the heart

Night shall be all . . . long and without light.

And then shall pass around the dreadful stench

When they shall be by night and hunger slain.

And shall the race establish, as it was

And then among them God shall also be,

And he shall teach them as he has taught me,

I did with knowledge once, and many things

Was cared for; and I, all-unfaithful, brought

Those in need and among the foremost went

Into like glen and minded not God's word.

Therefore did fire consume me and shall gnaw;

Construct a tomb, and shall slay me with stones;

For thus shall I live and fix eyes on heaven.

When the great tower fell and the tongues of men

Established, that of Persians and of Medes

And also of the Ethiopians

And of Assyria and Babylon,

And of Assyria and Babylon,

Unto all mortals and shall spend the toils

Of men of every land. And it shall lead

Make laws for peoples and subject all things.

Fire then shall destroy all things and give back

And of all flesh. First cause of ills to all

Are covetousness and a lack of sense.

And silver; for than these did mortals choose

The Father, nor yet faith and piety

A fount, and of disorder forward guide,

An instrument of wars and foe of peace

Parents and children. And along with gold

Parents and children. And along with gold

And the land shall have its borders and each sea

And the land shall have its borders and each sea

And if the huge earth from the starry heaven

It had belonged to rich men and God must

And thou shalt be the first to bend thy neck

And be rased to the ground, and thee shall fire

And be rased to the ground, and thee shall fire

Upon thy pavements, and thy wealth shall perish,

And wolves and foxes dwell in thy foundations.

And wolves and foxes dwell in thy foundations.

And then shalt thou be wholly desolate,

Of Cronus, or of Zeus, and of all those

And honor the unconscious dead with thrones?

And plundering hateful silver even more,

And stripping it off he shall pick it up.

And he shall have part in all mysteries

Abolish all things sacred, and disclose

Shall perish. And yet shall the people say:

Is coming on. And, thy most piteous fate

Foreseeing, fathers and young children then

And to all ages. One of them being old

Who in his houses shall shut up and guard

On all and furnish Asia with great wealth.

And then shalt thou mourn and shalt put aside

And then shalt thou mourn and shalt put aside

Of thy commanders and wear mourning dress,

Of the living and the dead and all the world.

Of the living and the dead and all the world.

And parents shall not be to children dear

Of their impiety and their distress

And scattering and conquest, and when the fall

And scattering and conquest, and when the fall

And scattering and conquest, and when the fall

Of cities comes and yawnings of the earth.

And with full belly shall come on the waves

And shall afflict thy children, and there be

And shall afflict thy children, and there be

Famine and war of kinsmen, near at hand

Is the end of the world and the last day

And judgment of the immortal God for them

That are approved and chosen. And there shall

That are approved and chosen. And there shall

Implacable, and there, come a time

Of drinking blood and wretched course of life.

Whence naked and unworthy thou didst come

Naked thou mightest withdraw and afterwards

Under the earth. By naphtha and asphalt

And brimstone and much fire thou utterly

And brimstone and much fire thou utterly

Shalt disappear and shalt be burning dust