<p class="poetry">Look, we heard about it<n id="1" /> in Ephrathah,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">we found it in the territory of Jaar.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even if the forest is destroyed<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the city is annihilated,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me,p> <p class="poetry">as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The wild boars of the forest ruin it;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the insects<n id="2" /> of the field feed on it.p>

<p class="poetry">Like the fire that burns down the forest,p> <p class="poetry">or the flames that consume the mountainsides,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">There will be so few trees left in his forest,p> <p class="poetry">a child will be able to count them.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax,p> <p class="poetry">and mighty Lebanon will fall.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about Arabia:p> <p class="poetry">In the thicket of Arabia you spend the night,p> <p class="poetry">you Dedanite caravans.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour,p> <p class="poetry">all you wild animals in the forest!p>

<p class="bodytext">Now the whole army<n id="1" /> entered the forest and there was honey on the ground.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then the army marched out to the field to fight against Israel. The battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

<p class="poetry">Then let the trees of the forest shout with joy before the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">for he comes to judge the earth!p>

<p class="poetry">Let the fields and everything in them celebrate!p> <p class="poetry">Then let the trees of the forest shout with joyp>

<p class="poetry">You make it dark and night comes,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.p>

<p class="poetry">I constructed pools of water for myself,p> <p class="poetry">to irrigate my grove<n id="1" /> of flourishing trees.p>

<p class="poetry">The splendor of his forest and his orchardp> <p class="poetry">will be completely destroyed,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as when a sick man&#8217;s life ebbs away.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They<n id="1" /> removed the defenses<n id="2" /> of Judah.p> <p class="poetry">At that time<n id="3" /> you lookedp> <p class="poetry">for the weapons in the House of the Forest.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">In just a very short time<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Lebanon will turn into an orchard,p> <p class="poetry">and the orchard will be considered a forest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">This desolation will continue until new life is poured out on us from heaven.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Then the desert will become an orchardp> <p class="poetry">and the orchard will be considered a forest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The people I call my own<n id="1" /> have turned on mep> <p class="poetry">like a lion<n id="2" /> in the forest.p> <p class="poetry">They have roared defiantly<n id="3" /> at me.p> <p class="poetry">So I will treat them as though I hate them.<n id="4" />p>