The Lord who commands armies planned it – to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.

ב (Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold – Alas! – but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.

Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, as well as Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:

When Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the special tunic that he wore.

Jacob said to Joseph, “The sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

“You are to make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you are to make eleven curtains.

“You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.

At three times in the year all your men must appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, to provide places for the poles.

You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.

the land that the Lord subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

There the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and then its direction is to the sea.

However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land.