But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.”
They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;
When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste.
“Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!
She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”
Then the king of Israel said, “Alas! The Lord has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”
He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.
“If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution. If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hiring fee.
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