<p class="poetry">Your splendor<n id="1" /> has been brought down to Sheol,p> <p class="poetry">as well as the sound of your stringed instruments.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You lie on a bed of maggots,p> <p class="poetry">with a blanket of worms over you.<n id="3" />p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Come, let&#8217;s consider your options,&#8221;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Though your sins have stained you like the color red,p> <p class="poetry">you can become<n id="3" /> white like snow;p> <p class="poetry">though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet,p> <p class="poetry">you can become<n id="4" /> white like wool.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t be afraid, despised insignificant Jacob,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">men of<n id="2" /> Israel.p> <p class="poetry">I am helping you,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">your protector,<n id="3" /> the Holy One of Israel.<n id="4" />p>

&#8220;They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die,<n id="1" /> and the fire that consumes them will not die out.<n id="2" /> All people will find the sight abhorrent.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>