<t /><p class="bodytext">Another battle was fought between the Philistines and Israel. So David went down with his soldiers<n id="1" /> and fought the Philistines. David became exhausted.

<p class="poetry">The days of our lives add up to seventy years,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or eighty, if one is especially strong.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">But even one&#8217;s best years are marred by trouble and oppression.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Yes,<n id="4" /> they pass quickly<n id="5" /> and we fly away.<n id="6" />p>

Seraphs<n id="1" /> stood over him; each one had six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet,<n id="2" /> and they used the remaining two to fly.

<p class="poetry">They will swoop down<n id="1" /> on the Philistine hills to the west;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">together they will loot the people of the east.p> <p class="poetry">They will take over Edom and Moab,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the Ammonites will be their subjects.p>

<p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t be so happy, all you Philistines,p> <p class="poetry">just because the club that beat you has been broken!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For a viper will grow out of the serpent&#8217;s root,p> <p class="poetry">and its fruit will be a darting adder.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will shock many peoples with you,p> <p class="poetry">and their kings will shiver with horror because of you.p> <p class="poetry">When I brandish my sword before them,p> <p class="poetry">every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.p>

<p class="poetry">Their horses are faster than leopardsp> <p class="poetry">and more alert<n id="1" /> than wolves in the desert.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Their horses<n id="3" /> gallop,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">their horses come a great distance;p> <p class="poetry">like a vulture<n id="5" /> they swoop down quickly to devour their prey.<n id="6" />p>

Someone asked me, &#8220;What do you see?&#8221; I replied, &#8220;I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other.<n id="1" /> She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground<n id="2" /> while he was asleep from exhaustion,<n id="3" /> and he died.

<p class="poetry">This is a message<n id="1" /> about the animals in the Negev:p> <p class="poetry">Through a land of distress and danger,p> <p class="poetry">inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">by snakes and darting adders,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they transport<n id="4" /> their wealth on the backs of donkeys,p> <p class="poetry">their riches on the humps of camels,p> <p class="poetry">to a nation that cannot help them.<n id="5" />p>