<p class="poetry">He<n id="1" /> attacks<n id="2" /> his friends;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he breaks his solemn promises to them.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The beauty<n id="1" /> of Israel lies slain on your high places!p> <p class="poetry">How the mighty have fallen!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">For I am oppressed and needy,p> <p class="poetry">and my heart beats violently within me.<n id="1" />p>

The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />p>

You have killed many people in this city; you have filled its streets with corpses.&#8217;

<p class="poetry">They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die violently<n id="1" /> in the heart of the seas.p>

and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity<n id="1" /> because he has profaned<n id="2" /> what is holy to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" /> That person will be cut off from his people.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will make my arrows drunk with blood,p> <p class="poetry">and my sword will devour flesh &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the blood of the slaughtered and captured,p> <p class="poetry">the chief<n id="1" /> of the enemy&#8217;s leaders!&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">How the warriors have fallenp> <p class="poetry">in the midst of battle!p> <p class="poetry">Jonathan lies slain on your high places!p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">If a homicide victim<n id="1" /> should be found lying in a field in the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you,<n id="2" /> and no one knows who killed<n id="3" /> him,

<p class="bodytext">Abishai the brother of Joab was head of the three<n id="1" /> elite warriors. He killed three hundred men with his spear<n id="2" /> and gained fame along with the three elite warriors.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Yes, but the time will certainly come,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;when I will punish her idols.p> <p class="poetry">Throughout her land the mortally wounded will groan.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">whose day has come, the time of final punishment,p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

<p class="poetry">I will send a plague into the city<n id="1" /> and bloodshed into its streets;p> <p class="poetry">the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it<n id="2" /> from every side.p> <p class="poetry">Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">A sword will come against Egyptp> <p class="poetry">and panic will overtake Ethiopiap> <p class="poetry">when the slain fall in Egyptp> <p class="poetry">and they carry away her wealthp> <p class="poetry">and dismantle her foundations.p>

<p class="poetry">He and his people with him,p> <p class="poetry">the most terrifying of the nations,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will be brought there to destroy the land.p> <p class="poetry">They will draw their swords against Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">and fill the land with corpses.p>

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and I will place my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan like the fatally wounded before the king of Babylon.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">The charioteers<n id="1" /> will charge ahead;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">their swords<n id="3" /> will flash<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and their spears<n id="5" /> will glimmer!<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">There will be many people slain;<n id="7" />p> <p class="poetry">there will be piles of the dead,p> <p class="poetry">and countless casualties<n id="8" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">so many that people<n id="9" /> will stumble over the corpses.p>