<p class="poetry">The ropes of Sheol<n id="1" /> tightened around me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the snares of death trapped me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">A rope is hidden for him<n id="1" /> on the groundp> <p class="poetry">and a trap for him<n id="2" /> lies on the path.p>

<p class="poetry">But if they are bound in chains,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and held captive by the cords of affliction,p>

<p class="poetry">They crouch, they bear<n id="1" /> their young,p> <p class="poetry">they bring forth the offspring they have carried.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The ropes of the wicked tighten around<n id="1" /> me,p> <p class="poetry">but I do not forget your law.p>

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s allotment is his people,p> <p class="poetry">Jacob is his special possession.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">saying, &#8220;To you I will give the land of Canaanp> <p class="poetry">as the portion of your inheritance.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="poetry"><v id="(40:25)" /><n id="1" /> &#8220;Can you pull in<n id="2" /> Leviathan with a hook,p> <p class="poetry">and tie down<n id="3" /> its tongue with a rope?p>

<p class="poetry">It is as if I have been given fertile fieldsp> <p class="poetry">or received a beautiful tract of land.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The waves<n id="1" /> of death engulfed me,p> <p class="poetry">the currents<n id="2" /> of chaos<n id="3" /> overwhelmed me.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The ropes of Sheol tightened around me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the snares of death trapped me.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">saying, &#8220;To you I will give the land of Canaanp> <p class="poetry">as the portion of your inheritance.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">The wicked<n id="1" /> will be captured by his<n id="2" /> own iniquities,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and he will be held<n id="4" /> by the cords of his own sin.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who pull sin as with cart ropes.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The seacoast<n id="1" /> will be used as pasture lands<n id="2" /> by the shepherdsp> <p class="poetry">and as pens for their flocks.p>

He defeated the Moabites. He made them lie on the ground and then used a rope to measure them off. He put two-thirds of them to death and spared the other third.<n id="1" /> The Moabites became David&#8217;s subjects and brought tribute.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Rahab<n id="1" /> let them down by a rope<n id="2" /> through the window. (Her<n id="3" /> house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.)<n id="4" />

Manasseh was allotted ten shares of land,<n id="1" /> in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;How often<n id="1" /> is the lamp of the wicked extinguished?p> <p class="poetry">How often does their<n id="2" /> misfortune come upon them?p> <p class="poetry">How often does God apportion pain<n id="3" /> to them<n id="4" /> in his anger?p>

<p class="poetry">He drove the nations out from before them;p> <p class="poetry">he assigned them their tribal allotments<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.<n id="2" />p>