The Dedanites were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

Your rowers have brought you into surging waters. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Those who share the king’s fine food will attempt to destroy him, and his army will be swept away; many will be killed in battle.

But reports will trouble him from the east and north, and he will set out in a tremendous rage to destroy and wipe out many.

Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.

Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, “Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!”

When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you – Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you –

For the Lord your God will bless you just as he has promised; you will lend to many nations but will not borrow from any, and you will rule over many nations but they will not rule over you.

After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days, then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the Lord and did not journey.

Then Moses raised his hand, and struck the rock twice with his staff. And water came out abundantly. So the community drank, and their beasts drank too.

Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea just as the Lord told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.

You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God.

A long time passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, and Joshua was very old.

David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer that we be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”

Shimei said to the king, “My master the king’s proposal is acceptable. Your servant will do as you say.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.