<p class="poetry">He looks down on the earth and it shakes;p> <p class="poetry">he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, make the sky sink<n id="1" /> and come down!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Touch the mountains and make them smolder!<n id="3" />p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">There is a loud noise on the mountains &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">it sounds like a large army!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">There is great commotion among the kingdoms<n id="3" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">nations are being assembled!p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies is musteringp> <p class="poetry">forces for battle.p>

<p class="poetry">I the King, whose name is the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all,<n id="1" /> swear this:p> <p class="poetry">I swear as surely as I live that<n id="2" /> a conqueror is coming.p> <p class="poetry">He will be as imposing as Mount Tabor is among the mountains,p> <p class="poetry">as Mount Carmel is against the backdrop of the sea.<n id="3" />p>

Why<n id="1" /> should the Egyptians say,<n id="2" /> &#8216;For evil<n id="3" /> he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy<n id="4" /> them from the face of the earth&#8217;? Turn from your burning anger, and relent<n id="5" /> of this evil against your people.

The Midianites<n id="1" /> overwhelmed Israel.<n id="2" /> Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters<n id="3" /> for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds.

Now don&#8217;t let my blood fall to the ground away from the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge<n id="1" /> in the hill country.&#8221;p>

He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands<n id="1" /> and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel,<n id="2" /> for he loved agriculture.<n id="3" />p>