<p class="poetry">She has prepared her meat,<n id="1" /> she has mixed her wine;p> <p class="poetry">she also has arranged her table.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Suddenly he went<n id="1" /> after herp> <p class="poetry">like an ox that goes to the slaughter,p> <p class="poetry">like a stag prancing into a trapper&#8217;s snare<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Kill all her soldiers!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them be slaughtered!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They are doomed,<n id="3" /> for their day of reckoning<n id="4" /> has come,p> <p class="poetry">the time for them to be punished.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> is angry at all the nationsp> <p class="poetry">and furious with all their armies.p> <p class="poetry">He will annihilate them and slaughter them.p>

<p class="poetry">He was treated harshly and afflicted,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but he did not even open his mouth.p> <p class="poetry">Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block,p> <p class="poetry">like a sheep silent before her shearers,p> <p class="poetry">he did not even open his mouth.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">It is sharpened for slaughter,p> <p class="poetry">it is polished to flash like lightning!p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree!<n id="1" />p>

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, &#8220;Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sword is dripping with blood,p> <p class="poetry">it is covered<n id="1" /> with fat;p> <p class="poetry">it drips<n id="2" /> with the blood of young rams and goatsp> <p class="poetry">and is covered<n id="3" /> with the fat of rams&#8217; kidneys.p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> is holding a sacrifice<n id="4" /> in Bozrah,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">a bloody<n id="6" /> slaughter in the land of Edom.p>

<p class="poetry">I predestine you to die by the sword,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because I called to you, and you did not respond,p> <p class="poetry">I spoke and you did not listen.p> <p class="poetry">You did evil before me;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you chose to do what displeases me.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, son of man, prophesy and say, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says concerning the Ammonites and their coming humiliation;<n id="1" /> say:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter,p> <p class="poetry">polished to consume,<n id="2" /> to flash like lightning &#8211;p>