A whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings; they will be brought to shame because of their idolatrous worship.

This is a lament; they will chant it. The daughters of the nations will chant it. They will chant it over Egypt and over all her hordes, declares the sovereign Lord.”

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

The appetite of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor is shown no favor in his eyes.

(The Danites failed to conquer their territory, so they went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. They put the sword to it, took possession of it, and lived in it. They renamed it Dan after their ancestor.)

“I, the Lord, do these things. I, the Lord, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the Lord. I say to you,

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

They will fall among those killed by the sword. The sword is drawn; they carry her and all her hordes away.

Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me.

The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

The men of Judah went with their brothers the men of Simeon and defeated the Canaanites living in Zephath. They wiped out Zephath. So people now call the city Hormah.

Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.

When he got home, he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife.”

(Now she was wearing a long robe, for this is what the king’s virgin daughters used to wear.) So Amnon’s attendant removed her and bolted the door behind her.

I have asked the Lord for one thing – this is what I desire! I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord and contemplate in his temple.

Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.

“And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it – Jerusalem.

Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore to give to your fathers.