<p class="poetry">with kings and counselors of the earthp> <p class="poetry">who built for themselves places now desolate,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am like an owl<n id="1" /> in the wilderness;p> <p class="poetry">I am like a screech owl<n id="2" /> among the ruins.<n id="3" />p>

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">The enemy&#8217;s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you destroyed their cities;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">all memory of the enemies has perished.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, they hurl insults at mep> <p class="poetry">and openly threaten to kill me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for they say,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Who hears?&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">There is a generation whose teeth are like<n id="1" /> swords<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and whose molars<n id="3" /> are like knivesp> <p class="poetry">to devour<n id="4" /> the poor from the earthp> <p class="poetry">and the needy from among the human race.p>

<p class="poetry">In unison give a joyful shout,p> <p class="poetry">O ruins of Jerusalem!p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> consoles his people;p> <p class="poetry">he protects<n id="1" /> Jerusalem.p>

<p class="poetry">They will rebuild the perpetual ruinsp> <p class="poetry">and restore the places that were desolate;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will reestablish the ruined cities,p> <p class="poetry">the places that have been desolate since ancient times.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time the <sc>Lordsc> told Joshua, &#8220;Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">For they flee from the swords &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">from the drawn swordp> <p class="poetry">and from the battle-ready bowp> <p class="poetry">and from the severity of the battle.p>

<p class="poetry">Your perpetual ruins will be rebuilt;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you will reestablish the ancient foundations.p> <p class="poetry">You will be called, &#8216;The one who repairs broken walls,p> <p class="poetry">the one who makes the streets inhabitable again.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types,<n id="1" /> all of them armed with swords.

to loot and plunder, to attack<n id="1" /> the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center<n id="2" /> of the earth.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Edom<n id="1" /> says, &#8220;Though we are devastated, we will once again build the ruined places.&#8221; So the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="2" /> responds, &#8220;They indeed may build, but I will overthrow. They will be known as<n id="3" /> the land of evil, the people with whom the <sc>Lordsc> is permanently displeased.