Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all and to ask his favor.

So<n id="1" /> now, please come and curse this nation<n id="2" /> for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them<n id="3" /> and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed,<n id="4" /> and whoever you curse is cursed.&#8221;p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you &#8211; Hittites,<n id="1" /> Girgashites,<n id="2" /> Amorites,<n id="3" /> Canaanites,<n id="4" /> Perizzites,<n id="5" /> Hivites,<n id="6" /> and Jebusites,<n id="7" /> seven<n id="8" /> nations more numerous and powerful than you &#8211;

Then you must affirm before the <sc>Lord your Godsc>, &#8220;A wandering<n id="1" /> Aramean<n id="2" /> was my ancestor,<n id="3" /> and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number,<n id="4" /> but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

So look, the sovereign master<n id="1" /> is bringing up against them the turbulent and mighty waters of the Euphrates River<n id="2" /> &#8211; the king of Assyria and all his majestic power. It will reach flood stage and overflow its banks.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because he willingly submitted<n id="3" /> to deathp> <p class="poetry">and was numbered with the rebels,p> <p class="poetry">when he lifted up the sin of manyp> <p class="poetry">and intervened<n id="4" /> on behalf of the rebels.&#8221;p>

He will rouse his strength and enthusiasm<n id="1" /> against the king of the south<n id="2" /> with a large army. The king of the south will wage war with a large and very powerful army, but he will not be able to prevail because of the plans devised against him.

<p class="poetry">It will be<n id="1" /> a day of dreadful darkness,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">a day of foreboding storm clouds,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">like blackness<n id="4" /> spread over the mountains.p> <p class="poetry">It is a huge and powerful army<n id="5" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">there has never been anything like it ever before,p> <p class="poetry">and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">The voice of the <sc>Lordsc> thunders<n id="1" /> as he leads his army.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, his warriors<n id="3" /> are innumerable;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Surely his command is carried out!<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Yes, the day of the <sc>Lordsc> is awesome<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">and very terrifying &#8211; who can survive<n id="7" /> it?p>

<p class="poetry">He will arbitrate<n id="1" /> between many peoplesp> <p class="poetry">and settle disputes between many<n id="2" /> distant nations.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They will beat their swords into plowshares,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and their spears into pruning hooks.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">Nations will not use weapons<n id="6" /> against other nations,p> <p class="poetry">and they will no longer train for war.p>