A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory is from the Lord.

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;

You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile with overflowing streams full of water. You provide grain for them, for you prepare the earth to yield its crops.

Jotham grew powerful because he was determined to please the Lord his God.

“For inquire now of the former generation, and pay attention to the findings of their ancestors;

“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

For calamity, there is derision (according to the ideas of the fortunate) – a fate for those whose feet slip!

They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”

If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

When I went out to the city gate and secured my seat in the public square,

Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

He prepares to use deadly weapons against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.

But the Lord rules forever; he reigns in a just manner.

Lord, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.

For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them.

For he set its foundation upon the seas, and established it upon the ocean currents.

For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.

Though I have done nothing wrong, they are anxious to attack. Spring into action and help me! Take notice of me!

for you live among them. You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.

They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.