<p class="poetry">It lives on a rock and spends the night there,p> <p class="poetry">on a rocky crag<n id="1" /> and a fortress.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Are you acquainted with the way<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the mountain goats<n id="2" /> give birth?p> <p class="poetry">Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?p>

<p class="poetry">They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They<n id="2" /> will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.p>

He struck them down and defeated them.<n id="1" /> Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.p>

<p class="poetry">He lifted me out of the watery pit,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">out of the slimy mud.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He placed my feet on a rockp> <p class="poetry">and gave me secure footing.<n id="3" />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>

My message is like a fire that purges dross!<n id="1" /> It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces!<n id="2" /> I, the <sc>Lordsc>, so affirm it!<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">To arouse anger, to take vengeance,p> <p class="poetry">I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.p>

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil<n id="1" /> from her and make her a bare rock.

Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

<p class="bodytext">So Saul stopped pursuing David and went to confront the Philistines. Therefore that place is called Sela Hammahlekoth.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Each of them<n id="1" /> will be like a shelter from the windp> <p class="poetry">and a refuge from a rainstorm;p> <p class="poetry">like streams of water in a dry regionp> <p class="poetry">and like the shade of a large cliff in a parched land.p>

<p class="poetry">For her blood was in it;p> <p class="poetry">she poured it on an exposed rock;p> <p class="poetry">she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.p>

I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again,<n id="1" /> for I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Your presumptuous heart<n id="1" /> has deceived you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">whose home is high in the mountains.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">You think to yourself,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;No one can<n id="5" /> bring me down to the ground!&#8217;<n id="6" />p>

Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, &#8220;Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?&#8221; He said to them, &#8220;I have only done to them what they have done to me.&#8221;

The rest<n id="1" /> turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites<n id="2" /> caught<n id="3" /> five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels<n id="4" /> all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.