You will present them before the <sc>Lordsc>, and the priests will scatter salt on them<n id="1" /> and offer them up as a burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

After<n id="1" /> entering into an alliance with him, he will behave treacherously; he will ascend to power with only a small force.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="poetry">They have gone up to Assyria,p> <p class="poetry">like a wild donkey that wanders off.p> <p class="poetry">Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet,p> <p class="poetry">and due to a prophet<n id="1" /> Israel<n id="2" /> was preserved alive.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They<n id="1" /> charge<n id="2" /> like warriors;p> <p class="poetry">they scale walls like soldiers.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Each one proceeds on his course;p> <p class="poetry">they do not alter<n id="4" /> their path.p>

<p class="poetry">They rush into<n id="1" /> the city;p> <p class="poetry">they scale<n id="2" /> its walls.p> <p class="poetry">They climb up into the houses;p> <p class="poetry">they go in through the windows like a thief.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Proclaim this among the nations:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Prepare for a holy war!p> <p class="poetry">Call out the warriors!p> <p class="poetry">Let all these fighting men approach and attack!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings,<n id="1" /> I will not be satisfied;p> <p class="poetry">I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Even if they could dig down into the netherworld,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my hand would pull them up from there.p> <p class="poetry">Even if they could climb up to heaven,p> <p class="poetry">I would drag them down from there.p>

<p class="poetry">Those who have been delivered<n id="1" /> will go up on Mount Zionp> <p class="poetry">in order to rule over<n id="2" /> Esau&#8217;s mountain.p> <p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> will reign as King!<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;Go immediately<n id="1" /> to Nineveh,<n id="2" /> that<n id="3" /> large capital<n id="4" /> city,<n id="5" /> and announce judgment against<n id="6" /> its people<n id="7" /> because their wickedness<n id="8" /> has come to my attention.&#8221;<n id="9" />

<p class="bodytext">So God sent<n id="1" /> a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

<p class="poetry">Nineveh<n id="1" /> is taken into exile<n id="2" /> and is led away;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">her slave girls moan<n id="4" /> like doves<n id="5" /> while they beat<n id="6" /> their breasts.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">The Babylonian tyrant<n id="1" /> pulls them all up with a fishhook;p> <p class="poetry">he hauls them in with his throw net.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">When he catches<n id="3" /> them in his dragnet,p> <p class="poetry">he is very happy.<n id="4" />p>

Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build<n id="1" /> the temple.<n id="2" /> Then I will be pleased and honored,&#8217;<n id="3" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.

The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the <sc>Lordsc>, lest he break through against them.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Go up<n id="1" /> from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath<n id="2" /> to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, &#8216;I will give it to your descendants.&#8217;<n id="3" />

However, you must not eat these<n id="1" /> from among those that chew the cud and have divided hooves: The camel is unclean to you<n id="2" /> because it chews the cud<n id="3" /> even though its hoof is not divided.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then you responded to me and admitted, &#8220;We have sinned against the <sc>Lordsc>. We will now go up and fight as the <sc>Lordsc> our God has told us to do.&#8221; So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.

However, you may not eat the following animals among those that chew the cud or those that have divided hooves: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger.<n id="1" /> (Although they chew the cud, they do not have divided hooves and are therefore ritually impure to you).