“Separate yourselves from among this community, that I may consume them in an instant.”

I chase my enemies and destroy them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.

When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped.

In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps and finished in the seventh month.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.

I chase my enemies and catch them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.

Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

Do not reject me in my old age! When my strength fails, do not abandon me!

My flesh and my heart may grow weak, but God always protects my heart and gives me stability.

Why do you remain inactive? Intervene and destroy him!

They have almost destroyed me here on the earth, but I do not reject your precepts.

The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips brings about evil.

The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

All rebellious sinners will be shattered, those who abandon the Lord will perish.

“They cry, ‘Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, and still we have not been delivered.’

A sword will flash in their cities, it will destroy the bars of their city gates, and will devour them in their fortresses.