Broken cisterns or empty clouds
A worthless empty hollow shell
Fruitless limbs all cracked and bowed
A caved in dry and worthless well.

A pretty seedling without root
A messenger with naught to say
A lovely fig tree without fruit
A laborer that won't obey

Brackish water not fit to drink
A barren land a salty pool
A perfect chain with one bad link
A carpenter without a tool.