<p class="poetry">Their slain will be left unburied,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">their corpses will stink;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the hills will soak up their blood.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry"><v id="(63:19b)" /><n id="1" /> If only you would tear apart the sky<n id="2" /> and come down!p> <p class="poetry">The mountains would tremble<n id="3" /> before you!p>

<p class="poetry">All you who live in the world,p> <p class="poetry">who reside on the earth,p> <p class="poetry">you will see a signal flag raised on the mountains;p> <p class="poetry">you will hear a trumpet being blown.p>

<p class="poetry">Let the desert and its cities shout out,p> <p class="poetry">the towns where the nomads of Kedar live!p> <p class="poetry">Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully;p> <p class="poetry">let them shout loudly from the mountaintops.p>

<p class="poetry">I will make the trees on the mountains and hills wither up;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will dry up all their vegetation.p> <p class="poetry">I will turn streams into islands,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and dry up pools of water.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you came down, and the mountains trembled<n id="2" /> before you.p>

<p class="poetry">Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when he shouts at<n id="2" /> them, they will flee to a distant land,p> <p class="poetry">driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills,p> <p class="poetry">or like dead thistles<n id="3" /> before a strong gale.p>

<p class="poetry">They will all be left<n id="1" /> for the birds of the hillsp> <p class="poetry">and the wild animals;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the birds will eat them during the summer,p> <p class="poetry">and all the wild animals will eat them during the winter.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Who has measured out the waters<n id="1" /> in the hollow of his hand,p> <p class="poetry">or carefully<n id="2" /> measured the sky,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">or carefully weighed<n id="4" /> the soil of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">or weighed the mountains in a balance,p> <p class="poetry">or the hills on scales?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Look, I am making you like<n id="1" /> a sharp threshing sledge,p> <p class="poetry">new and double-edged.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">You will thresh the mountains and crush them;p> <p class="poetry">you will make the hills like straw.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Shout for joy, O sky!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Rejoice, O earth!p> <p class="poetry">Let the mountains give a joyful shout!p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> consoles his peoplep> <p class="poetry">and shows compassion to the<n id="2" /> oppressed.p>

<p class="poetry">Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;With my many chariots I climbed upp> <p class="poetry">the high mountains,p> <p class="poetry">the slopes of Lebanon.p> <p class="poetry">I cut down its tall cedarsp> <p class="poetry">and its best evergreens.p> <p class="poetry">I invaded its most remote regions,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">its thickest woods.p>

<p class="poetry">Shout for joy, O sky, for the <sc>Lordsc> intervenes;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">shout out, you subterranean regions<n id="2" /> of the earth.p> <p class="poetry">O mountains, give a joyful shout;p> <p class="poetry">you too, O forest and all your trees!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> protects<n id="4" /> Jacob;p> <p class="poetry">he reveals his splendor through Israel.<n id="5" />p>