<p class="poetry">Foreigners are powerless before me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when they hear of my exploits, they submit to me.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Men of understanding say to me &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">any wise man listening to me says &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is on my side,<n id="1" /> I am not afraid!p> <p class="poetry">What can people do to me?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I possess understanding and might.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">I increased my possessions:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I built houses for myself;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I planted vineyards for myself.p>

But she replied<n id="1" /> to them,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Don&#8217;t call me &#8216;Naomi&#8217;!<n id="3" /> Call me &#8216;Mara&#8217;<n id="4" /> because the Sovereign One<n id="5" /> has treated me very harshly.<n id="6" />

<p class="poetry">I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan!p> <p class="poetry">You were very dear to me.p> <p class="poetry">Your love was more special to me than the love of women.p>

<p class="poetry">From the ends of the earth we<n id="1" /> hear songs &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the Just One is majestic.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But I<n id="3" /> say, &#8220;I&#8217;m wasting away! I&#8217;m wasting away! I&#8217;m doomed!p> <p class="poetry">Deceivers deceive, deceivers thoroughly deceive!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Sarah said, &#8220;God has made me laugh.<n id="1" /> Everyone who hears about this<n id="2" /> will laugh<n id="3" /> with me.&#8221;

&#8216;Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat<n id="1" /> it and bless you<n id="2" /> in the presence of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="3" /> before I die.&#8217;

He said to him, &#8220;This is what Ben Hadad says, &#8216;Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="poetry">thus<n id="1" /> I have been made to inherit<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">months of futility,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and nights of sorrow<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">have been appointed<n id="5" /> to me.p>

<p class="poetry">When they hear of my exploits, they submit to me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Foreigners are powerless<n id="2" /> before me;p>

<p class="poetry">Who will rise up to defend me<n id="1" /> against the wicked?p> <p class="poetry">Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Gilead belongs to me,p> <p class="poetry">as does Manasseh!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Ephraim is my helmet,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Judah my royal scepter.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">unless they became my subjects<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and made peace with me;p> <p class="poetry">let them make peace with me.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet the children born during your time of bereavementp> <p class="poetry">will say within your hearing,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;This place is too cramped for us,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">make room for us so we can live here.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will commit myself to you<n id="1" /> forever;p> <p class="poetry">I will commit myself to you in<n id="2" /> righteousness and justice,p> <p class="poetry">in steadfast love and tender compassion.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Three times<n id="1" /> in the year you must make a pilgrim feast<n id="2" /> to me.

Let them make<n id="1" /> for me a sanctuary,<n id="2" /> so that I may live among them.