<t /><p class="poetry">In that day people<n id="1" /> will come to you<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">from Assyria as far as<n id="3" /> Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">from Egypt as far as the Euphrates River,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">from the seacoasts<n id="5" /> and the mountains.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">I dug wells and drankp> <p class="poetry">water in foreign lands.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">With the soles of my feet I dried upp> <p class="poetry">all the rivers of Egypt.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> deserves praise<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for he demonstrated his amazing faithfulness to me when I was besieged by enemies.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Who will lead me into the fortified city?p> <p class="poetry">Who will bring me to Edom?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The canals<n id="1" /> will stink;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the streams of Egypt will trickle and then dry up;p> <p class="poetry">the bulrushes and reeds will decay,p>

<p class="poetry">I dug wellsp> <p class="poetry">and drank water.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">With the soles of my feet I dried upp> <p class="poetry">all the rivers of Egypt.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">They do not thirst as he leads them through dry regions;p> <p class="poetry">he makes water flow out of a rock for them;p> <p class="poetry">he splits open a rock and water flows out.&#8217;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon?p> <p class="poetry">Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow?<n id="1" />p>

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

<p class="poetry">Draw yourselves water for a siege!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Strengthen your fortifications!p> <p class="poetry">Trample the mud<n id="2" /> and tread the clay!p> <p class="poetry">Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!<n id="3" />p>

Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets!

and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents<n id="1" /> and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow<n id="2" /> from a flint rock and

He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates,<n id="1" />

Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp<n id="1" /> against it! Post soldiers outside it<n id="2" /> and station battering rams around it.

<p class="poetry"><v id="(4:14)" /><n id="1" /> But now slash yourself,<n id="2" /> daughter surrounded by soldiers!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">We are besieged!p> <p class="poetry">With a scepter<n id="4" /> they strike Israel&#8217;s ruler<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">on the side of his face.p>

<p class="poetry">I will stand at my watch post;p> <p class="poetry">I will remain stationed on the city wall.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to mep> <p class="poetry">and can know<n id="2" /> how I should answerp> <p class="poetry">when he counters my argument.<n id="3" />p>

However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food,<n id="1" /> and you may use it to build siege works<n id="2" /> against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.p>