<p class="poetry">Give them a distraught heart;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">may your curse be on them!p>

<p class="poetry">Pay them back for their evil deeds!p> <p class="poetry">Pay them back for what they do!p> <p class="poetry">Punish them!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">They have mouths, but cannot speak,p> <p class="poetry">eyes, but cannot see,p>

<p class="poetry">They have mouths, but cannot speak,p> <p class="poetry">eyes, but cannot see,p>

<p class="poetry">There are four things on earth that are small,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but they are exceedingly wise:<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I also thought to myself, &#8220;It is<n id="1" /> for the sake of people,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">so God can clearly<n id="3" /> show<n id="4" /> them that they are like animals.p>

<p class="poetry">Among the smooth stones of the stream are the idols you love;p> <p class="poetry">they, they are the object of your devotion.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You pour out liquid offerings to them,p> <p class="poetry">you make an offering.p> <p class="poetry">Because of these things I will seek vengeance.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> answered,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;This will happen<n id="2" /> because my people are foolish.p> <p class="poetry">They do not know me.p> <p class="poetry">They are like children who have no sense.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They have no understanding.p> <p class="poetry">They are skilled at doing evil.p> <p class="poetry">They do not know how to do good.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Woe to them! For they have fled from me!p> <p class="poetry">Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me!p> <p class="poetry">I want to deliver<n id="1" /> them,p> <p class="poetry">but they have lied to me.p>

Beriah, and Shema. They were leaders of the families living in Aijalon and chased out the inhabitants of Gath.p>

<p class="poetry">Terrify them, <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let the nations know they are mere mortals!<n id="2" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">He said, &#8220;Certainly they will be my people,p> <p class="poetry">children who are not disloyal.&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He became their deliverer.p>

<p class="poetry">I did not send those prophets.p> <p class="poetry">Yet they were in a hurry to give their message.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I did not tell them anything.p> <p class="poetry">Yet they prophesied anyway.p>

Their rims were high and awesome,<n id="1" /> and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.p>

They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.p>

<p class="bodytext">When morning came,<n id="1" /> the men and their donkeys were sent off.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">I<n id="1" /> have refused<n id="2" /> to touch such things;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they are like loathsome food to me.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;And now I have become their taunt song;p> <p class="poetry">I have become a byword<n id="1" /> among them.p>

<p class="poetry">then he reveals<n id="1" /> to them what they have done,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and their transgressions,p> <p class="poetry">that they were behaving proudly.p>

<p class="poetry">They ate until they were stuffed;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he gave them what they desired.p>