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 306 WILD APPLES. the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. " Awake, ye drunkards, and weep ! and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine ! for it is cut off from your mouth. " For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek-teeth of a great lion. " He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white " Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen ! howl, O ye vine-dressers ! . . . . " The vine is dried up, and the fig-tree lan- guished ; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered : because joy is withered away from the sons of men."