<p class="poetry">Although you were a powerful man,<n id="1" /> owning land,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">an honored man<n id="3" /> living on it,<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;How you have helped<n id="1" /> the powerless!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">How you have saved the person who has no strength!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do you have an arm as powerful as God&#8217;s,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and can you thunder with a voice like his?p>

<p class="poetry">Break the arm<n id="1" /> of the wicked and evil man!p> <p class="poetry">Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">which he thought you would not discover.<n id="3" />p>

Now, if such a carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown,<n id="1" /> it is clean,

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Gad he said:p> <p class="poetry">Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad.p> <p class="poetry">Like a lioness he will dwell;p> <p class="poetry">he will tear at an arm &#8211; indeed, a scalp.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even Assyria has allied with them,p> <p class="poetry">lending its strength to the descendants of Lot.<n id="1" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">Your arm is powerful,p> <p class="poetry">your hand strong,p> <p class="poetry">your right hand<n id="1" /> victorious.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">the one who made his majestic power available to Moses,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who divided the water before them,p> <p class="poetry">gaining for himself a lasting reputation,<n id="2" />p>

He has with him mere human strength,<n id="1" /> but the <sc>Lordsc> our God is with us to help us and fight our battles!&#8221; The army<n id="2" /> was encouraged by the words of King Hezekiah of Judah.p>

<p class="poetry">Wake up! Wake up!p> <p class="poetry">Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity!p> <p class="poetry">Did you not smash<n id="2" /> the Proud One?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Did you not<n id="4" /> wound the sea monster?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> reveals<n id="1" /> his royal power<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in the sight of all the nations;p> <p class="poetry">the entire<n id="3" /> earth seesp> <p class="poetry">our God deliver.<n id="4" />p>

&#8220;Son of man, I have broken the arm<n id="1" /> of Pharaoh king of Egypt.<n id="2" /> Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword.