17 When they are scorched, they dry up,when it is hot, they vanish from their place.
18 Caravans turn aside from their routes;they go into the wasteland and perish.
19 The caravans of Tema looked intently for these streams;the traveling merchants of Sheba hoped for them.
20 They were distressed, because each one had been so confident;they arrived there, but were disappointed.
21 For now you have become like these streams that are no help;you see a terror, and are afraid.
22 “Have I ever said, ‘Give me something,and from your fortune make gifts in my favor’?
23 Or ‘Deliver me from the enemy’s power,and from the hand of tyrants ransom me’?