<p class="poetry">Then call,<n id="1" /> and I will answer,p> <p class="poetry">or I will speak, and you respond to me.p>

<p class="poetry">You will call<n id="1" /> and I<n id="2" /> &#8211; I will answer you;p> <p class="poetry">you will long for<n id="3" /> the creature you have made.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Bear with me<n id="1" /> and I<n id="2" /> will speak,p> <p class="poetry">and after I have spoken<n id="3" /> you may mock.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">You said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Pay attention, and I will speak;p> <p class="poetry">I will question you, and you will answer me.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Pay attention, Job &#8211; listen to me;p> <p class="poetry">be silent, and I will speak.p>

<p class="poetry">Then you will again be my peoplep> <p class="poetry">and I will be your God.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham asked, &#8220;Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord<n id="1" /> (although I am but dust and ashes),<n id="2" />

Laban said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come, you who are blessed by the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="2" /> Why are you standing out here when I have prepared<n id="3" /> the house and a place for the camels?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Jacob woke up<n id="1" /> and thought,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Surely the <sc>Lordsc> is in this place, but I did not realize it!&#8221;

So now go, and I will be with your mouth<n id="1" /> and will teach you<n id="2" /> what you must say.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

And Balaam<n id="1" /> said to Balak, &#8220;Station yourself here<n id="2" /> by your burnt offering, while I meet the <sc>Lordsc> there.

<p class="poetry">But I<n id="1" /> am a worm,<n id="2" /> not a man;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">people insult me and despise me.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Even if mothers<n id="3" /> were to forget,p> <p class="poetry">I could never forget you!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> has spoken to me clearly;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have not rebelled,p> <p class="poetry">I have not turned back.p>

<p class="poetry">I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God,p> <p class="poetry">who churns up the sea so that its waves surge.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies is his name!p>

<p class="poetry">I planted you in the landp> <p class="poetry">like a special vine of the very best stock.p> <p class="poetry">Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vinep> <p class="poetry">that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?<n id="1" />p>

Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Yet it was I who led<n id="1" /> Ephraim,p> <p class="poetry">I took them by the arm;p> <p class="poetry">but they did not acknowledgep> <p class="poetry">that I had healed them.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God<n id="1" /> who brought you<n id="2" /> out of Egypt;p> <p class="poetry">I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I spoke to the prophets;p> <p class="poetry">I myself revealed many visions;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I spoke in parables<n id="2" /> through<n id="3" /> the prophets.&#8221;p>