<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and covered with pools of stagnant water.p> <p class="poetry">I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom,&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> stretched out his hand over the sea,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he shook kingdoms;p> <p class="poetry">he<n id="2" /> gave the orderp> <p class="poetry">to destroy Canaan&#8217;s fortresses.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and your children<n id="2" /> like its granules.p> <p class="poetry">Their name would not have been cut offp> <p class="poetry">and eliminated from my presence.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But he does not agree with this,p> <p class="poetry">his mind does not reason this way,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for his goal is to destroy,p> <p class="poetry">and to eliminate many nations.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s day of judgment<n id="1" /> is coming;p> <p class="poetry">it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">destroying<n id="3" /> the earth<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and annihilating its sinners.p>

<p class="poetry">The dead do not come back to life,p> <p class="poetry">the spirits of the dead do not rise.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">That is because<n id="2" /> you came in judgment<n id="3" /> and destroyed them,p> <p class="poetry">you wiped out all memory of them.p>