<p class="poetry">By his power he stills<n id="1" /> the sea;p> <p class="poetry">by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster<n id="2" /> to pieces.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I wipe them out and beat them to death;p> <p class="poetry">they cannot get up;p> <p class="poetry">they fall at my feet.p>

<p class="poetry">For<n id="1" /> he<n id="2" /> wounds,<n id="3" /> but he also bandages;p> <p class="poetry">he strikes, but his hands also heal.p>

<p class="poetry">I beat them<n id="1" /> to death;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they fall at my feet.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">O sovereign <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> at your right handp> <p class="poetry">he strikes down<n id="2" /> kings in the day he unleashes his anger.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Bless, O <sc>Lordsc>, his goods,p> <p class="poetry">and be pleased with his efforts;p> <p class="poetry">undercut the legs<n id="1" /> of any who attack him,p> <p class="poetry">and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies,p> <p class="poetry">the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">so that your feet may stomp<n id="1" /> in their blood,p> <p class="poetry">and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies&#8217; corpses.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He executes judgment<n id="1" /> against<n id="2" /> the nations;p> <p class="poetry">he fills the valleys with corpses;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he shatters their heads over the vast battlefield.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">God brought them out of Egypt.p> <p class="poetry">They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull;p> <p class="poetry">they will devour hostile people<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and will break their bonesp> <p class="poetry">and will pierce them through with arrows.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;See now that I, indeed I, am he!&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;and there is no other god besides me.p> <p class="poetry">I kill and give life,p> <p class="poetry">I smash and I heal,p> <p class="poetry">and none can resist<n id="2" /> my power.p>

<p class="poetry">Her left<n id="1" /> hand reached for the tent peg,p> <p class="poetry">her right hand for the workmen&#8217;s hammer.p> <p class="poetry">She &#8220;hammered&#8221;<n id="2" /> Sisera,p> <p class="poetry">she shattered his skull,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">she smashed his head,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">she drove the tent peg through his temple.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">You march out to deliver your people,p> <p class="poetry">to deliver your special servant.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You strike the leader of the wicked nation,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">laying him open from the lower body to the neck.<n id="3" /> <i>Selahi>.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8216;I see him, but not now;p> <p class="poetry">I behold him, but not close at hand.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">A star<n id="2" /> will march forth<n id="3" /> out of Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">and a scepter<n id="4" /> will rise out of Israel.p> <p class="poetry">He will crush the skulls<n id="5" /> of Moab,p> <p class="poetry">and the heads<n id="6" /> of all the sons of Sheth.<n id="7" />p>