<p class="poetry">I will increase their<n id="1" /> disasters,p> <p class="poetry">I will use up my arrows on them.p>

<p class="poetry">Fire consumed their<n id="1" /> young men,p> <p class="poetry">and their<n id="2" /> virgins remained unmarried.<n id="3" />p>

For the <sc>Lordsc> your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the company of the godless is barren,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and fire<n id="2" /> consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8216;Surely our enemies<n id="1" /> are destroyed,p> <p class="poetry">and fire consumes their wealth.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">If I have refused to give the poor what they desired,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,p>

<p class="poetry">This is the way<n id="1" /> of an adulterous<n id="2" /> woman:p> <p class="poetry">she eats and wipes her mouth<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and says, &#8220;I have not done wrong.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;It did no good for me to punish your people.p> <p class="poetry">They did not respond to such correction.p> <p class="poetry">You slaughtered your prophetsp> <p class="poetry">like a voracious lion.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your warriors will be like women in your midst;p> <p class="poetry">the gates of your land will be wide open<n id="1" /> to your enemies;p> <p class="poetry">fire will consume<n id="2" /> the bars of your gates.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For fire went out from Heshbon,p> <p class="poetry">a flame from the city of Sihon.p> <p class="poetry">It has consumed Ar of Moabp> <p class="poetry">and the lords<n id="1" /> of the high places of Arnon.p>

<p class="bodytext">On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up.<n id="1" /> (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair<n id="2" /> by the doorpost of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.)

The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.p>

<p class="poetry">So a treaty curse<n id="1" /> devours the earth;p> <p class="poetry">its inhabitants pay for their guilt.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and are reduced to just a handful of people.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal,p> <p class="poetry">has taken away<n id="1" /> all that our ancestors<n id="2" /> worked for.p> <p class="poetry">It has taken away our flocks and our herds,p> <p class="poetry">and even our sons and daughters.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Make an announcement throughout Egypt.p> <p class="poetry">Proclaim it in Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Take your positions and prepare to do battle.p> <p class="poetry">For the enemy army is destroying all the nations around you.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1490; (<i>Gimeli>)p> <p class="poetry">In fierce anger<n id="1" /> he destroyed<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the whole army<n id="3" /> of Israel.p> <p class="poetry">He withdrew his right hand<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">as the enemy attacked.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">He was like a raging fire in the land of Jacob;<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">it consumed everything around it.<n id="7" />p>

No!<n id="1" /> It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

<p class="poetry">A fire has gone out from its branch; it has consumed its shoot and its fruit.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No strong branch was left in it, nor a scepter to rule.&#8217;p> <p class="bodytext">This is a lament song, and has become a lament song.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">To you, O <sc>Lordsc>, I call out for help,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for fire<n id="2" /> has burned up<n id="3" /> the grassy pastures,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">flames have razed<n id="5" /> all the trees in the fields.p>

<p class="poetry">Even the wild animals<n id="1" /> cry out to you;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for the river beds<n id="3" /> have dried up;p> <p class="poetry">fire has destroyed<n id="4" /> the grassy pastures.<n id="5" />p>