<p class="poetry">Their camels will be taken as plunder.p> <p class="poetry">Their vast herds will be taken as spoil.p> <p class="poetry">I will scatter to the four windsp> <p class="poetry">those desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will bring disaster against themp> <p class="poetry">from every direction,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p>

Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors<n id="2" /> to the winds.<n id="3" />p>

A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you.<n id="1" /> A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you,<n id="2" /> and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced<n id="1" /> your beauty when you spread<n id="2" /> your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

All the choice men<n id="1" /> among his troops will die<n id="2" /> by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles<n id="1" /> wide and eight and a quarter miles<n id="2" /> long; it will be for the whole house of Israel.p>

<p class="bodytext"><v id="(3:31)" /><n id="1" /> &#8220;King Nebuchadnezzar, to all peoples, nations, and language groups that live in all the land: Peace and prosperity!<n id="2" />

So I issued an order<n id="1" /> for all the wise men of Babylon to be brought<n id="2" /> before me so that they could make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen<n id="1" /> in all the land,

<p class="bodytext">Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and language groups who were living in all the land: &#8220;Peace and prosperity!<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">They mock kingsp> <p class="poetry">and laugh at rulers.p> <p class="poetry">They laugh at every fortified city;p> <p class="poetry">they build siege ramps<n id="1" /> and capture them.p>

&#8220;I am about to make Jerusalem<n id="1" /> a cup that brings dizziness<n id="2" /> to all the surrounding nations; indeed, Judah will also be included when Jerusalem is besieged.

&#8220;Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your<n id="1" /> instruction.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">On the third day it was Pharaoh&#8217;s birthday, so he gave a feast for all his servants. He &#8220;lifted up&#8221;<n id="1" /> the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants.

When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants,<n id="1" /> so he cried out, &#8220;Make everyone go out from my presence!&#8221; No one remained<n id="2" /> with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

Now go up to my father quickly<n id="1" /> and tell him, &#8216;This is what your son Joseph says: &#8220;God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!

<p class="bodytext">On the first day there will be a holy convocation,<n id="1" /> and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind<n id="2" /> on them, only what every person will eat &#8211; that alone may be prepared for you.

It will be on Aaron&#8217;s forehead, and Aaron will bear the iniquity of the holy things,<n id="1" /> which the Israelites are to sanctify by all their holy gifts;<n id="2" /> it will always be on his forehead, for their acceptance<n id="3" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>.

Everyone making an offering of silver or bronze brought it as<n id="1" /> an offering to the <sc>Lordsc>, and everyone who had acacia wood<n id="2" /> for any work of the service brought it.<n id="3" />