God sent me<n id="1" /> ahead of you to preserve you<n id="2" /> on the earth and to save your lives<n id="3" /> by a great deliverance.

The <sc>Lordsc> your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic<n id="1" /> until they are destroyed.

<p class="poetry">There was no one to lead herp> <p class="poetry">among all the children she bore;p> <p class="poetry">there was no one to take her by the handp> <p class="poetry">among all the children she raised.p>

But reports will trouble him from the east and north, and he will set out in a tremendous rage to destroy and wipe out many.

<p class="bodytext">When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep,<n id="1" /> and great terror overwhelmed him.<n id="2" />

because we are about to destroy<n id="1" /> it. The outcry against this place<n id="2" /> is so great before the <sc>Lordsc> that he<n id="3" /> has sent us to destroy it.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When Esau heard<n id="1" /> his father&#8217;s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly.<n id="2" /> He said to his father, &#8220;Bless me too, my father!&#8221;

There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been,<n id="1" /> nor ever will be again.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Moses said to Aaron, &#8220;What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The next day Moses said to the people,<n id="1" /> &#8220;You have committed a very serious sin,<n id="2" /> but now I will go up to the <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; perhaps I can make atonement<n id="3" /> on behalf of your sin.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">So Moses returned to the <sc>Lordsc> and said, &#8220;Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin,<n id="1" /> and they have made for themselves gods of gold.

In the same way that I valued your life this day,<n id="1" /> may the <sc>Lordsc> value my life<n id="2" /> and deliver me from all danger.&#8221;

I prayed,<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.

<p class="bodytext">They said to me, &#8220;The remnant that remains from the exile there in the province are experiencing considerable<n id="1" /> adversity and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem lies breached, and its gates have been burned down!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official<n id="1" /> heard all this, they were very displeased that someone had come to seek benefit for the Israelites.p>

<p class="poetry">I, the <sc>Lordsc>, once called<n id="1" /> you a thriving olive tree,p> <p class="poetry">one that produced beautiful fruit.p> <p class="poetry">But I will set you<n id="2" /> on fire,p> <p class="poetry">fire that will blaze with a mighty roar.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Then all your branches will be good for nothing.<n id="4" />p>

Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, &#8220;What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom?<n id="1" /> You have done things to me that should not be done!&#8221;<n id="2" />

Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>

He saw<n id="1" /> in the field a well with<n id="2" /> three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now<n id="3" /> a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

Pharaoh got up<n id="1" /> in the night,<n id="2" /> along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house<n id="3" /> in which there was not someone dead.