<p class="poetry">where then<n id="1" /> is my hope?p> <p class="poetry">And my hope,<n id="2" /> who sees it?p>

<p class="poetry">know<n id="1" /> then that God has wronged me<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and encircled<n id="3" /> me with his net.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;If this is not so, who can prove me a liarp> <p class="poetry">and reduce my words to nothing?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">If a land<n id="1" /> has been givenp> <p class="poetry">into the hand of a wicked man,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he covers<n id="3" /> the faces of its judges;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">if it is not he, then who is it?<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;O that<n id="1" /> my words were written down,p> <p class="poetry">O that they were written on a scroll,<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about the Valley of Vision:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">What is the reason<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">that all of you go up to the rooftops?p>

<p class="poetry">then, my child, do this in order to deliver yourself,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">because you have fallen into your neighbor&#8217;s power:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">go, humble yourself,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and appeal firmly<n id="4" /> to your neighbor.p>

<p class="poetry">But where, oh where, are your wise men?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them tell you, let them find outp> <p class="poetry">what the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has planned for Egypt.p>

<p class="poetry">Where<n id="1" /> then is your king,p> <p class="poetry">that he may save you in all your cities?p> <p class="poetry">Where are<n id="2" /> your rulers for whom you asked, saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Give me a king and princes&#8221;?p>

Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Isaac replied to Esau, &#8220;Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then their father Israel said to them, &#8220;If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man &#8211; a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Zebul said to him, &#8220;Where now are your bragging words,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?&#8217; Are these not the men<n id="2" /> you insulted?<n id="3" /> Go out now and fight them!&#8221;

Therefore take note that not one of the judgments the <sc>Lordsc> announced against Ahab&#8217;s dynasty has failed to materialize. The <sc>Lordsc> had done what he announced through his servant Elijah.&#8221;<n id="1" />