<p class="poetry">The raging waterp> <p class="poetry">would have overwhelmed us.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">and led Israel through its midst,p> <p class="poetry">for his loyal love endures,p>

<p class="poetry">People<n id="1" /> are like a vapor,p> <p class="poetry">their days like a shadow that disappears.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">calling out<n id="1" /> to those who are passing by her<n id="2" /> in the way,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">who go straight<n id="4" /> on their way.p>

<p class="poetry">Travel to Tarshish!p> <p class="poetry">Wail, you residents of the coast!p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;That is why I will scatter your people<n id="2" /> like chaffp> <p class="poetry">that is blown away by a desert wind.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You shrouded yourself with a cloudp> <p class="poetry">so that no prayer can get through.p>

And let me get<n id="1" /> a bit of food<n id="2" /> so that you may refresh yourselves<n id="3" /> since you have passed by your servant&#8217;s home. After that you may be on your way.&#8221;<n id="4" /> &#8220;All right,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;you may do as you say.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Fear and dread<n id="1" /> will fall<n id="2" /> on them;p> <p class="poetry">by the greatness<n id="3" /> of your arm they will be as still as stone<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">until<n id="5" /> your people pass by, O <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">until the people whom you have bought<n id="6" /> pass by.p>

You must sound loud horn blasts<n id="1" /> &#8211; in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement &#8211; you must sound the horn in your entire land.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Let us<n id="1" /> pass through your land;<n id="2" /> we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King&#8217;s Highway until we pass your borders.&#8221;

and then the border will turn from the south to the Scorpion Ascent,<n id="1" /> continue to Zin, and then its direction<n id="2" /> will be from the south to Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.

<p class="bodytext">So we turned away from our relatives<n id="1" /> the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route,<n id="2" /> from Elat<n id="3" /> and Ezion Geber,<n id="4" /> and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.

So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that<n id="1" /> good land.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

extended<n id="1" /> south of the Scorpion Ascent,<n id="2" /> crossed to Zin, went up from the south to Kadesh Barnea, crossed to Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned toward Karka.

So David said to Ittai, &#8220;Come along then.&#8221;<n id="1" /> So Ittai the Gittite went along,<n id="2" /> accompanied by all his men and all the dependents<n id="3" /> who were with him.p>

<p class="bodytext">So all the people crossed the Jordan, as did the king. After the king had kissed him and blessed him, Barzillai returned to his home.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Go, my people! Enter your inner rooms!p> <p class="poetry">Close your doors behind you!p> <p class="poetry">Hide for a little while,p> <p class="poetry">until his angry judgment is over!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you;p> <p class="poetry">indeed,<n id="1" /> every morning it will sweep by,p> <p class="poetry">it will come through during the day and the night.&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">When this announcement is understood,p> <p class="poetry">it will cause nothing but terror.p>