<p class="poetry">The one enthroned<n id="1" /> in heaven laughs in disgust;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the Lord taunts<n id="3" /> them.p>

<p class="poetry">You are holy;p> <p class="poetry">you sit as king receiving the praises of Israel.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Terror, pit, and snarep> <p class="poetry">are ready to overtake you inhabitants of the earth!<n id="1" />p>

The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks<n id="1" /> of the Jordan.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

This took place after the defeat<n id="1" /> of King Sihon<n id="2" /> of the Amorites, whose capital was<n id="3" /> in Heshbon,<n id="4" /> and King Og of Bashan, whose capital was<n id="5" /> in Ashtaroth,<n id="6" /> specifically in Edrei.<n id="7" />

<p class="bodytext">The five others were Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-Hesed.p>

<p class="poetry">Terror, pits, and traps<n id="1" /> are in storep> <p class="poetry">for the people who live in Moab.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, affirm it!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> Isaac came from<n id="2" /> Beer Lahai Roi,<n id="3" /> for<n id="4" /> he was living in the Negev.<n id="5" />

(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites were living in the valleys.)<n id="1" /> Tomorrow, turn and journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowlands.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Do not plot<n id="1" /> evil against your neighborp> <p class="poetry">when<n id="2" /> he dwells by you unsuspectingly.p>

<p class="poetry">A king sitting on the throne to judge<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">separates out<n id="2" /> all evil with his eyes.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">So now, residents of Jerusalem,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">people<n id="2" /> of Judah,p> <p class="poetry">you decide between me and my vineyard!p>

Since it was the ninth month of the year, the king was sitting in his winter quarters.<n id="1" /> A fire was burning in the firepot in front of him.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Set up a gravestone for Moab,p> <p class="poetry">for it will certainly be laid in ruins!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Its cities will be laid wastep> <p class="poetry">and become uninhabited.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Babylon will become a heap of ruins.p> <p class="poetry">Jackals will make their home there.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn,p> <p class="poetry">a place where no one lives.<n id="2" />p>

so that I may make you solemnly promise<n id="1" /> by the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire<n id="2" /> a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, &#8220;Perhaps you live near us.<n id="1" /> So how can we make a treaty with you?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The men of Judah went with their brothers the men of Simeon<n id="1" /> and defeated the Canaanites living in Zephath. They wiped out Zephath.<n id="2" /> So people now call the city Hormah.<n id="3" />

The <sc>Lordsc> turned them over to<n id="1" /> King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor.<n id="2" /> The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim.<n id="3" />