<p class="poetry">By the breath<n id="1" /> of God they perish,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and by the blast<n id="3" /> of his anger they are consumed.p>

<p class="poetry">The Spirit of God has made me,p> <p class="poetry">and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let everything that has breath praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="bodytext">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">To whom<n id="1" /> did you utter these words?p> <p class="poetry">And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">for while<n id="1" /> my spirit<n id="2" /> is still in me,p> <p class="poetry">and the breath from God is in my nostrils,p>

<p class="poetry">But it is a spirit in people,p> <p class="poetry">the breath<n id="1" /> of the Almighty,p> <p class="poetry">that makes them understand.p>

<p class="poetry">If God<n id="1" /> were to set his heart on it,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and gather in his spirit and his breath,p>

<p class="poetry">The breath of God produces ice,p> <p class="poetry">and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.p>

<p class="poetry">The human spirit<n id="1" /> is like<n id="2" /> the lamp<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lord,sc>p> <p class="poetry">searching all his innermost parts.<n id="4" />p>

Everything on dry land that had the breath of life<n id="1" /> in its nostrils died.

<p class="poetry">The depths<n id="1" /> of the sea were exposed;p> <p class="poetry">the inner regions<n id="2" /> of the world were uncoveredp> <p class="poetry">by the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s battle cry,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">by the powerful breath from his nose.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The depths<n id="1" /> of the sea<n id="2" /> were exposed;p> <p class="poetry">the inner regions<n id="3" /> of the world were uncoveredp> <p class="poetry">by<n id="4" /> your battle cry,<n id="5" /> <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">by the powerful breath from your nose.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Stop trusting in human beings,p> <p class="poetry">whose life&#8217;s breath is in their nostrils.p> <p class="poetry">For why should they be given special consideration?p>

The <sc>Lordsc> God formed<n id="1" /> the man from the soil of the ground<n id="2" /> and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,<n id="3" /> and the man became a living being.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">As for the cities of these peoples that<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing<n id="2" /> to survive.

They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword<n id="1" /> &#8211; no one who breathed remained &#8211; and burned<n id="2" /> Hazor.p>

<p class="poetry">This is what the true God,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, says &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the one who created the sky and stretched it out,p> <p class="poetry">the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who gives breath to the people on it,p> <p class="poetry">and life to those who live on it:<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For I will not be hostile<n id="1" /> foreverp> <p class="poetry">or perpetually angry,p> <p class="poetry">for then man&#8217;s spirit would grow faint before me,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the life-giving breath I created.p>

<p class="bodytext">Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands,<n id="1" /> the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel had commanded.

When he became king, he executed Jeroboam&#8217;s entire family. He wiped out everyone who breathed,<n id="1" /> just as the <sc>Lordsc> had predicted<n id="2" /> through his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.