When they had completely consumed the earth&#8217;s vegetation, I said,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, forgive Israel!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">How can Jacob survive?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He is too weak!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your presumptuous heart<n id="1" /> has deceived you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">you who reside in the safety of the rocky cliffs,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">whose home is high in the mountains.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">You think to yourself,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;No one can<n id="5" /> bring me down to the ground!&#8217;<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">All this is because of Jacob&#8217;s rebellionp> <p class="poetry">and<n id="1" /> the sins of the nation<n id="2" /> of Israel.p> <p class="poetry">How has Jacob rebelled, you ask?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Samaria epitomizes their rebellion!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Where are Judah&#8217;s pagan worship centers, you ask?<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">They are right in Jerusalem!<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">There is no other God like you!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You<n id="2" /> forgive sinp> <p class="poetry">and pardon<n id="3" /> the rebellionp> <p class="poetry">of those who remain among your people.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">You do not remain angry forever,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">but delight in showing loyal love.p>

<p class="poetry">No one can withstand<n id="1" /> his indignation!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">No one can resist<n id="3" /> his fierce anger!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire,p> <p class="poetry">boulders are broken up<n id="5" /> as he approaches.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust;p> <p class="poetry">they will say, &#8216;Nineveh has been devastated!p> <p class="poetry">Who will lament for her?&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">There will be no one to comfort you!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your destruction is like an incurable wound;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your demise is like a fatal injury!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">All who hear what has happened to you<n id="3" /> will clap their hands for joy,<n id="4" />p> <p class="bodytext">for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;What are you, you great mountain?<n id="1" /> Because of Zerubbabel you will become a level plain! And he will bring forth the temple<n id="2" /> capstone with shoutings of &#8216;Grace! Grace!&#8217;<n id="3" /> because of this.&#8221;

&#8220;I do not know who has done this thing,&#8221; Abimelech replied. &#8220;Moreover,<n id="1" /> you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.&#8221;p>

Then I asked her, &#8216;Whose daughter are you?&#8217; She replied, &#8216;The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.&#8217;<n id="1" /> I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

Isaac began to shake violently<n id="1" /> and asked, &#8220;Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him.<n id="2" /> He will indeed be blessed!&#8221;p>

When Esau<n id="1" /> looked up<n id="2" /> and saw the women and the children, he asked, &#8220;Who are these people with you?&#8221; Jacob<n id="3" /> replied, &#8220;The children whom God has graciously given<n id="4" /> your servant.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">When Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadad<n id="1" /> reigned in his place; the name of his city was Pau.<n id="2" /> His wife&#8217;s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.p>

<p class="bodytext">The man<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;Who made you a ruler<n id="2" /> and a judge over us? Are you planning<n id="3" /> to kill me like you killed that<n id="4" /> Egyptian?&#8221; Then Moses was afraid, thinking,<n id="5" /> &#8220;Surely what I did<n id="6" /> has become known.&#8221;

But Pharaoh said, &#8220;Who is the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> that<n id="2" /> I should obey him<n id="3" /> by releasing<n id="4" /> Israel? I do not know the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="5" /> and I will not release Israel!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea,p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc> brought back the waters of the sea on them,p> <p class="poetry">but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.&#8221;p>

The Israelites said to them, &#8220;If only we had died<n id="1" /> by the hand of the <sc>Lordsc> in the land of Egypt, when we sat by<n id="2" /> the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full,<n id="3" /> for you have brought us out into this desert to kill<n id="4" /> this whole assembly with hunger!&#8221;p>

He told the elders, &#8220;Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are<n id="1" /> Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute<n id="2" /> can approach<n id="3" /> them.&#8221;p>

Then the priest will have the woman stand before the <sc>Lordsc>, uncover the woman&#8217;s head, and put the grain offering for remembering in her hands, which is the grain offering of suspicion. The priest will hold in his hand the bitter water that brings a curse.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;And say to the people, &#8216;Sanctify yourselves<n id="1" /> for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>, saying, &#8220;Who will give us meat to eat,<n id="3" /> for life<n id="4" /> was good for us in Egypt?&#8221; Therefore the <sc>Lordsc> will give you meat, and you will eat.