<p class="poetry">A club is counted<n id="1" /> as a piece of straw;p> <p class="poetry">it laughs at the rattling of the lance.p>

<p class="poetry">All the nations are insignificant before him;p> <p class="poetry">they are regarded as absolutely nothing.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I spelled out my law for him in great detail,p> <p class="poetry">but they regard it as something totally unknown<n id="1" /> to them!p>

<p class="poetry">Their arrows are sharpened,p> <p class="poetry">and all their bows are prepared.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The hooves of their horses are hard as flint,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket;p> <p class="poetry">they are regarded as dust on the scales.p> <p class="poetry">He lifts<n id="1" /> the coastlands<n id="2" /> as if they were dust.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1489; (<i>Beti>)p> <p class="poetry">The precious sons of Zionp> <p class="poetry">were worth their weight in gold &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">Alas! &#8211; but now they are treated like<n id="1" /> broken clay pots,p> <p class="poetry">made by a potter.<n id="2" />p>

I gave instructions<n id="1" /> that Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and a certain Levite named Pedaiah be put in charge of<n id="2" /> the storerooms, and that Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, be their assistant,<n id="3" /> for they were regarded as trustworthy. It was then their responsibility to oversee the distribution to their colleagues.<n id="4" />p>