<p class="poetry">You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you toss me about<n id="2" /> in the storm.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The sluice gates<n id="1" /> are opened;p> <p class="poetry">the royal palace is deluged<n id="2" /> and dissolves.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They<n id="1" /> reached up to the sky,p> <p class="poetry">then dropped into the depths.p> <p class="poetry">The sailors&#8217; strength<n id="2" /> left them<n id="3" /> because the danger was so great.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">trembling will seize<n id="2" /> the leaders of Moab,p> <p class="poetry">and the inhabitants of Canaan will shake.p>

<p class="bodytext">Saul&#8217;s watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin<n id="1" /> looked on<n id="2" /> as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Nations are in uproar, kingdoms are overthrown.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">God<n id="2" /> gives a shout,<n id="3" /> the earth dissolves.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">You saturate<n id="1" /> its furrows,p> <p class="poetry">and soak<n id="2" /> its plowed ground.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">With rain showers you soften its soil,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and make its crops grow.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">When the earth and all its inhabitants dissolve in fear,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I make its pillars secure.&#8221;<n id="2" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">The mountains tremble before him,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the hills convulse;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the earth is laid waste<n id="3" /> before him,p> <p class="poetry">the world and all its inhabitants<n id="4" /> are laid waste.<n id="5" />p>

They told Joshua, &#8220;Surely the <sc>Lordsc> is handing over all the land to us!<n id="1" /> All who live in the land are cringing before us!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Wail, O city gate!p> <p class="poetry">Cry out, O city!p> <p class="poetry">Melt with fear,<n id="1" /> all you Philistines!p> <p class="poetry">For out of the north comes a cloud of smoke,p> <p class="poetry">and there are no stragglers in its ranks.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">No one invokes<n id="1" /> your name,p> <p class="poetry">or makes an effort<n id="2" /> to take hold of you.p> <p class="poetry">For you have rejected us<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and handed us over to our own sins.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke<n id="1" /> about Damascus.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;The people of Hamath and Arpad<n id="3" /> will be dismayedp> <p class="poetry">because they have heard bad news.p> <p class="poetry">Their courage will melt away because of worry.p> <p class="poetry">Their hearts will not be able to rest.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.p> <p class="poetry">At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.p> <p class="poetry">Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will do this.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He touches the earth and it dissolves;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">all who live on it mourn.p> <p class="poetry">The whole earth<n id="3" /> rises like the River Nile,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and then grows calm<n id="5" /> like the Nile in Egypt.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Be sure of this,<n id="1" /> the time is<n id="2" /> coming,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;when the plowman will catch up to the reaper<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the one who stomps the grapes<n id="4" /> will overtake<n id="5" /> the planter.<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">Juice will run down the slopes,<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">it will flow down all the hillsides.<n id="8" />p>

She said to the men, &#8220;I know the <sc>Lordsc> is handing this land over to you.<n id="1" /> We are absolutely terrified of you,<n id="2" /> and all who live in the land are cringing before<n id="3" /> you.<n id="4" />