<p class="poetry">So he used suffering to humble them;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they stumbled and no one helped them up.p>

Ezer was the leader, Obadiah the second in command, Eliab the third,

<p class="bodytext">the twenty-fourth to Romamti-Ezer and his sons and relatives &#8211; twelve in all.p>

<p class="poetry">for I rescued the poor who cried out for help,p> <p class="poetry">and the orphan who<n id="1" /> had no one to assist him;p>

<p class="poetry">They destroy<n id="1" /> my path;p> <p class="poetry">they succeed in destroying me<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">without anyone assisting<n id="3" /> them.p>

<p class="poetry">Hear, O <sc>Lordsc>, and have mercy on me!p> <p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, deliver me!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, God is my deliverer!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The Lord is among those who support me.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For he will rescue the needy<n id="1" /> when they cry out for help,p> <p class="poetry">and the oppressed<n id="2" /> who have no defender.p>

When they stumble, they will be granted some help. But many will unite with them deceitfully.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> God said, &#8220;It is not good for the man to be alone.<n id="1" /> I will make a companion<n id="2" /> for him who corresponds to him.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">I looked, but there was no one to help;p> <p class="poetry">I was shocked because there was no one offering support.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">So my right arm accomplished deliverance;p> <p class="poetry">my raging anger drove me on.<n id="2" />p>

So the man named all the animals, the birds of the air, and the living creatures of the field, but for Adam<n id="1" /> no companion who corresponded to him was found.<n id="2" />

They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily<n id="1" /> in their quarters.<n id="2" />

The <sc>Lordsc> saw Israel&#8217;s intense suffering;<n id="1" /> everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">From the sons of Heman:<n id="1" /> Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.

Adjacent to him Ezer son of Jeshua, head of Mizpah, worked on another section, opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress.

<p class="poetry">Then you<n id="1" /> spoke through a vision to your faithful followers<n id="2" /> and said:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I have energized a warrior;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I have raised up a young man<n id="4" /> from the people.p>

<p class="poetry">The Egyptians are mere humans, not God;p> <p class="poetry">their horses are made of flesh, not spirit.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> will strike with<n id="1" /> his hand;p> <p class="poetry">the one who helps will stumblep> <p class="poetry">and the one being helped will fall.p> <p class="poetry">Together they will perish.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the time has comep> <p class="poetry">to destroy all the Philistines.p> <p class="poetry">The time has come to destroy all the helpp> <p class="poetry">that remains for Tyre<n id="1" /> and Sidon.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For I, the <sc>Lordsc>, will<n id="3" /> destroy the Philistines,p> <p class="poetry">that remnant that came from the island of Crete.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">A wind<n id="1" /> lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord&#8217;s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people.<n id="2" />