Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them!

Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.

Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,

ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell,

They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,

“For Aaron’s sons you are to make tunics, sashes, and headbands for glory and for beauty.

Children of the third generation born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

Their rims were high and awesome, and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.

“‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property.

Give them, O Lord – what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!

So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.

“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Go and tell them, ‘Return to your tents!’

You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions, that they were behaving proudly.

They ate until they were stuffed; he gave them what they desired.

He granted their request, then struck them with a disease.