<p class="poetry">Look, I made him a witness to nations,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a ruler and commander of nations.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">That night the <sc>Lordsc> said to Gideon,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Get up! Attack<n id="2" /> the camp, for I am handing it over to you.<n id="3" />

for the life of every living thing<n id="1" /> is in the blood.<n id="2" /> So I myself have assigned it to you<n id="3" /> on the altar to make atonement for your lives, for the blood makes atonement by means of the life.<n id="4" />

I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses.<n id="1" />

They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride,<n id="1" /> and with it they made their abominable images &#8211; their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.

Then you shall say before the <sc>Lordsc> your God, &#8220;I have removed the sacred offering<n id="1" /> from my house and given it to the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows just as you have commanded me.<n id="2" /> I have not violated or forgotten your commandments.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days<n id="1" /> &#8211; I have assigned one day for each year.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore, this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire &#8211; so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> as fuel.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is what you must say to them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die<n id="1" /> by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.