<p class="poetry">They hatch the eggs of a poisonous snakep> <p class="poetry">and spin a spider&#8217;s web.p> <p class="poetry">Whoever eats their eggs will die,p> <p class="poetry">a poisonous snake is hatched.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">He broke open rocks in the wilderness,p> <p class="poetry">and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">By his knowledge the primordial sea<n id="1" /> was broken open,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the clouds drip down dew.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He locks the waters in his clouds,p> <p class="poetry">and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.p>

<p class="poetry">He has cut out channels<n id="1" /> through the rocks;p> <p class="poetry">his eyes have spotted<n id="2" /> every precious thing.p>

<p class="poetry">Inside I am like wine which has no outlet,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like new wineskins<n id="2" /> ready to burst!p>

<p class="poetry">You broke open the spring and the stream;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He divided the sea and led them across it;p> <p class="poetry">he made the water stand in a heap.p>

<p class="poetry">As when one plows and breaks up the soil,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.p>

<p class="poetry">One who quarries stones may be injured by them;p> <p class="poetry">one who splits logs may be endangered by them.p>

<p class="bodytext">When he had finished<n id="1" /> speaking<n id="2" /> all these words, the ground that was under them split open,

They say, &#8220;Let&#8217;s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it.<n id="1" /> Then we&#8217;ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions;p> <p class="poetry">he makes water flow out of a rock for them;p> <p class="poetry">he splits open a rock and water flows out.&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">the one who made his majestic power available to Moses,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who divided the water before them,p> <p class="poetry">gaining for himself a lasting reputation,<n id="2" />p>

It lasted until the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah&#8217;s eleventh year.<n id="1" /> On that day they broke through the city walls.

<p class="poetry">I will ignite a fire in Egypt;p> <p class="poetry">Syene<n id="1" /> will writhe in agony,p> <p class="poetry">Thebes will be broken down,p> <p class="poetry">and Memphis will face enemies every day.p>

<p class="poetry">I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I will rip open their chests.p> <p class="poetry">I will devour them there like a lion &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">like a wild animal would tear them apart.p>

<p class="poetry">The mountains will disintegrate<n id="1" /> beneath him,p> <p class="poetry">and the valleys will be split in two.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The mountains will melt<n id="3" /> like wax in a fire,p> <p class="poetry">the rocks will slide down like water cascading down a steep slope.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your bow is ready for action;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you commission your arrows.<n id="2" /> <i>Selahi>.p> <p class="poetry">You cause flash floods on the earth&#8217;s surface.<n id="3" />p>

And as for you,<n id="1" /> lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that<n id="2" /> the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.