<p class="poetry">Your tongue carries out your destructive plans;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">This brought him a reward,p> <p class="poetry">an eternal gift.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, of what importance is the human race,<n id="1" /> that you should notice them?p> <p class="poetry">Of what importance is mankind,<n id="2" /> that you should be concerned about them?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">A person<n id="1" /> plans his course,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the <sc>Lordsc> directs<n id="3" /> his steps.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The one who winks his eyes<n id="1" /> devises perverse things,p> <p class="poetry">and<n id="2" /> one who compresses his lips<n id="3" /> brings about<n id="4" /> evil.p>

<p class="poetry">Even a fool who remains silent is considered<n id="1" /> wise,p> <p class="poetry">and the one who holds his tongue is deemed discerning.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">All the nations are insignificant before him;p> <p class="poetry">they are regarded as absolutely nothing.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Although I trained and strengthened them,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they plot evil against me!p>

<p class="poetry">I spelled out my law for him in great detail,p> <p class="poetry">but they regard it as something totally unknown<n id="1" /> to them!p>

<p class="poetry">From you, O Nineveh,<n id="1" /> one has marched forth who plots evil against the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">a wicked military strategist.<n id="2" />p>

Hasn&#8217;t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted<n id="1" /> the money paid for us!<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;They are to make the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen, the work of an artistic designer.

And your raised offering will be credited<n id="1" /> to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine<n id="2" /> from the winepress.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Therefore you will say to them,<n id="1" /> &#8216;When you offer up<n id="2" /> the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites;<n id="1" /> the Moabites call them Emites.

Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yes,<n id="1" /> they intend to do you harm;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they dream up a scheme,<n id="3" /> but they do not succeed.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">How blessed is the one<n id="1" /> whose wrongdoing the <sc>Lordsc> does not punish,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in whose spirit there is no deceit.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">May those who seek my life be embarrassed and humiliated!p> <p class="poetry">May those who plan to harm me be turned back and ashamed!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For they do not try to make peace with others,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting.<n id="2" />p>