<p class="poetry">They have almost destroyed me here on the earth,p> <p class="poetry">but I do not reject your precepts.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will abandon my nation.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will forsake the people I call my own.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will turn my beloved people<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">over to the power<n id="4" /> of their enemies.p>

<p class="bodytext">Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says: &#8216;You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />