<p class="poetry">Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings.<n id="2" />p>

From one month<n id="1" /> to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people<n id="2" /> will come to worship me,&#8221;<n id="3" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel?p> <p class="poetry">Did you think that they were nothing but thieves,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that you shook your head in contempt<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">every time you talked about them?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Be sure of this! The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has decreed:p> <p class="poetry">The nations&#8217; efforts will go up in smoke;p> <p class="poetry">their exhausting work will be for nothing.<n id="1" />p>

Now the materials were more than enough<n id="1" /> for them to do all the work.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">When you find<n id="1" /> honey, eat only what is sufficient for you,p> <p class="poetry">lest you become stuffed<n id="2" /> with it and vomit it up.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">And there will be enough goat&#8217;s milk for your food,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for the food of your household,p> <p class="poetry">and for the sustenance<n id="2" /> of your servant girls.p>

If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers<n id="1" /> and gains enough for its redemption,<n id="2" />

Then,<n id="1" /> if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating,<n id="2" /> the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.<n id="3" />

Whenever the king visited the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.p>

<p class="poetry">At the sound of the trumpet, it says, &#8216;Aha!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">And from a distance it catches the scent of battle,p> <p class="poetry">the thunderous shouting of commanders,p> <p class="poetry">and the battle cries.p>

<p class="poetry">If grape pickers came to pick your grapes,p> <p class="poetry">would they not leave a few grapes behind?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">If robbers came at night,p> <p class="poetry">would they not pillage only what they needed?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and strangled prey to provide food<n id="2" /> for his lionesses;p> <p class="poetry">he filled<n id="3" /> his lairs with preyp> <p class="poetry">and his dens with torn flesh.p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="1" /> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Babylon&#8217;s thick wall<n id="2" /> will be completely demolished.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Her high gates will be set on fire.p> <p class="poetry">The peoples strive for what does not satisfy.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">The nations grow weary trying to get what will be destroyed.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

and told Moses, &#8220;The people are bringing much more than<n id="1" /> is needed for the completion<n id="2" /> of the work which the <sc>Lordsc> commanded us to do!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Instead, you must be sure to open your hand to him and generously lend<n id="1" /> him whatever he needs.<n id="2" />

When they invaded<n id="1" /> with their cattle and tents, they were as thick<n id="2" /> as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted.<n id="3" /> They came to devour<n id="4" /> the land.

Peninnah<n id="1" /> would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah<n id="2" /> went up to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house, Peninnah<n id="3" /> would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.

Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel,<n id="1" /> Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

<n id="1" /> Then the leaders of the Philistines would march out, and as often as they did so, David achieved more success than all of Saul&#8217;s servants. His name was held in high esteem.p>