<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will turn her into a place that is overrun with wild animals<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and covered with pools of stagnant water.p> <p class="poetry">I will get rid of her, just as one sweeps away dirt with a broom,&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.p>

<p class="bodytext">But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, &#8220;The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">I will put it into the hand of your tormentors<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">who said to you, &#8216;Lie down, so we can walk over you.&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">You made your back like the ground,p> <p class="poetry">and like the street for those who walked over you.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Otherwise, I will strip her naked,p> <p class="poetry">and expose her like she was when she was born.p> <p class="poetry">I will turn her land into a wildernessp> <p class="poetry">and make her country a parched land,p> <p class="poetry">so that I might kill<n id="1" /> her with thirst.p>

<p class="poetry">I will turn your festivals into funerals,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and all your songs into funeral dirges.p> <p class="poetry">I will make everyone wear funeral clothes<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and cause every head to be shaved bald.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.<n id="5" />p>