Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

Make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked bodies; they must cover from the waist to the thighs.

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all humankind, appoint a man over the community,

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh – the blood of the slaughtered and captured, the chief of the enemy’s leaders!’”

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

In God – I boast in his promise – in God I trust, I am not afraid. What can mere men do to me?

They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.

My mouth will praise the Lord. Let all who live praise his holy name forever!

The splendor of his forest and his orchard will be completely destroyed, as when a sick man’s life ebbs away.

The splendor of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it at the same time. For the Lord has decreed it.”

They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

For the Lord judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the Lord will kill many.

The Lord said to the people of Judah, “The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says: ‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!

“I am the Lord, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.

You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

And everyone will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

She lusted after their genitals – as large as those of donkeys, and their seminal emission was as strong as that of stallions.

There were hooks three inches long, fastened in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.

Be silent in the Lord’s presence, all people everywhere, for he is being moved to action in his holy dwelling place.

then I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures of all kinds. Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy all living things.