I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my fury, and you will be melted in it.

<p class="poetry">I passed by the field of a sluggard,p> <p class="poetry">by the vineyard of one who lacks wisdom.<n id="1" />p>

So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done,<n id="1" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers.p> <p class="poetry">I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Saul said to Samuel, &#8220;I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the <sc>Lordsc> commanded<n id="1" /> and what you said as well.<n id="2" /> For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">I sent him<n id="1" /> against a godless<n id="2" /> nation,p> <p class="poetry">I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">to take plunder and to carry away loot,p> <p class="poetry">to trample them down<n id="4" /> like dirt in the streets.p>

<p class="poetry">I will pour out my anger on you;p> <p class="poetry">the fire of my fury I will blow on you.p> <p class="poetry">I will hand you over to brutal men,p> <p class="poetry">who are skilled in destruction.p>

In my zeal, in the fire of my fury,<n id="1" /> I declare that on that day there will be a great earthquake<n id="2" /> in the land of Israel.

<t /><p class="poetry">Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain;p> <p class="poetry">I myself put a fine yoke<n id="1" />on her neck.p> <p class="poetry">I will harness Ephraim.p> <p class="poetry">Let Judah plow!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Let Jacob break up<n id="3" /> the unplowed ground for himself!p>

I am not worthy of all the faithful love<n id="1" /> you have shown<n id="2" /> your servant. With only my walking stick<n id="3" /> I crossed the Jordan,<n id="4" /> but now I have become two camps.

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.