<p class="poetry">I pour out my lament before him;p> <p class="poetry">I tell him about<n id="1" /> my troubles.p>

<p class="bodytext">Jacob<n id="1" /> sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen.<n id="2" /> So they came to the land of Goshen.

<p class="poetry">Majestic splendor emanates from him,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he is the source of strength and joy.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I would lay out my case<n id="1" /> before himp> <p class="poetry">and fill my mouth with arguments.p>

<p class="poetry">Before him the coastlands<n id="1" /> will bow down,p> <p class="poetry">and his enemies will lick the dust.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Majestic splendor emanates from him;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">his sanctuary is firmly established and beautiful.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Fire goes before him;p> <p class="poetry">on every side<n id="1" /> it burns up his enemies.p>

<p class="poetry">Plague goes before him;p> <p class="poetry">pestilence<n id="1" /> marches right behind him.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought to me,<n id="1" /> I took the wine and gave it to the king. Previously<n id="2" /> I had not been depressed<n id="3" /> in the king&#8217;s presence.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">Like fire they devour everything in their path;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a flame blazes behind them.p> <p class="poetry">The land looks like the Garden of Eden<n id="2" /> before them,p> <p class="poetry">but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">for nothing escapes them!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Deliverance goes<n id="1" /> before him,p> <p class="poetry">and prepares<n id="2" /> a pathway for him.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Worship<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> with joy!p> <p class="poetry">Enter his presence with joyful singing!p>

<p class="poetry">He will restore<n id="1" /> us in a very short time;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he will heal us in a little while,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">so that we may live in his presence.p>

When food was served,<n id="1" /> he said, &#8220;I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.&#8221;<n id="2" /> &#8220;Tell us,&#8221; Laban said.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Jacob sent messengers on ahead<n id="1" /> to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region<n id="2" /> of Edom.

They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest.<n id="1" /> The men looked at each other in astonishment.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So Judah and his brothers<n id="1" /> came back to Joseph&#8217;s house. He was still there,<n id="2" /> and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

Then his brothers also came and threw themselves down before him; they said, &#8220;Here we are; we are your slaves.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> Aaron saw this,<n id="2" /> he built an altar before it,<n id="3" /> and Aaron made a proclamation<n id="4" /> and said, &#8220;Tomorrow will be a feast<n id="5" /> to the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;

Then,<n id="1" /> if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating,<n id="2" /> the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.<n id="3" />