Bread of deceit {is} sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. {deceit: Heb. lying, or, falsehood}

O daughter of my people, gird {thee} with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, {as for} an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies {upon} the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered {him} with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if {he ask} a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.