<p class="poetry">Rouse yourself, wake up<n id="1" /> and vindicate me!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">My God and Lord, defend my just cause!<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Zion said, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has abandoned me,p> <p class="poetry">the sovereign master<n id="1" /> has forgotten me.&#8217;p>

So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking,<n id="1" /> &#8220;After I am worn out will I have pleasure,<n id="2" /> especially when my husband is old too?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

But my servant<n id="1" /> has slandered me<n id="2" /> to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do whatever seems appropriate to you.

<p class="poetry">But the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> helps me,p> <p class="poetry">so I am not humiliated.p> <p class="poetry">For that reason I am steadfastly resolved;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I know I will not be put to shame.p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies will do this.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He touches the earth and it dissolves;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">all who live on it mourn.p> <p class="poetry">The whole earth<n id="3" /> rises like the River Nile,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and then grows calm<n id="5" /> like the Nile in Egypt.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Lord <sc>Godsc> will blow the trumpet and will sally forth on the southern storm winds.

They said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> commanded my lord to give<n id="1" /> the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the <sc>Lordsc> to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

For the <sc>Lordsc> your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,

Your servant Joab did this so as to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like that of the angel of God, and knows everything that is happening in the land.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Joab replied to the king, &#8220;May the <sc>Lordsc> your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?&#8221;p>

The <sc>Lordsc> had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, &#8220;Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!&#8221;

Uriah replied to David, &#8220;The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord&#8217;s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations<n id="1" /> with my wife? As surely as you are alive,<n id="2" /> I will not do this thing!&#8221;