<p class="poetry">From the most remote place on earth<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I call out to you in my despair.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Lead me<n id="3" /> up to an inaccessible rocky summit!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">makes lightning bolts accompany the rain,p> <p class="poetry">and brings the wind out of his storehouses.p>

<p class="poetry">He lifts a signal flag for a distant nation,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he whistles for it to come from the far regions of the earth.p> <p class="poetry">Look, they<n id="2" /> come quickly and swiftly.p>

<p class="poetry">They come from a distant land,p> <p class="poetry">from the horizon.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It is the <sc>Lordsc> with his instruments of judgment,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">coming to destroy the whole earth.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Sing to the <sc>Lordsc> a brand new song!p> <p class="poetry">Praise him<n id="1" /> from the horizon of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you coastlands<n id="3" /> and those who live there!p>

<p class="poetry">I will say to the north, &#8216;Hand them over!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">and to the south, &#8216;Don&#8217;t hold any back!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">Bring my sons from distant lands,p> <p class="poetry">and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,p>

<p class="bodytext">At the end of seven days the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to me:<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Her conquerors cry out:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">There is no end to the treasure;p> <p class="poetry">riches of every kind of precious thing.p>

<p class="poetry">Cush<n id="1" /> and Egypt had limitless strength;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Put and the Libyans<n id="3" /> were among<n id="4" /> her<n id="5" /> allies.<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind<n id="1" /> on the earth, and ask<n id="2" /> from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

The <sc>Lordsc> will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of wood and stone.

<p class="poetry">A destructive army<n id="1" /> will come marchingp> <p class="poetry">over the hilltops in the desert.p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> will use them as his destructive weapon<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">against<n id="3" /> everyone from one end of the land to the other.p> <p class="poetry">No one will be safe.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Those who have been killed by the <sc>Lordsc> at that timep> <p class="poetry">will be scattered from one end of the earth to the other.p> <p class="poetry">They will not be mourned over, gathered up, or buried.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Their dead bodies will lie scattered over the ground like manure.p>

if he will sell<n id="1" /> me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly<n id="2" /> for the full price,<n id="3" /> so that I may own it as a burial site.&#8221;p>

You must set boundaries<n id="1" /> for the people all around, saying, &#8216;Take heed<n id="2" /> to yourselves not to go up on the mountain nor touch its edge. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death!

You are to make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you are to make fifty loops on the end curtain which is on the second set, so that the loops are opposite one to another.<n id="1" />

He made fifty loops on the first curtain, and he made fifty loops on the end curtain that was in the second set, with the loops opposite one another.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When the people complained,<n id="2" /> it displeased<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. When the <sc>Lordsc> heard<n id="4" /> it, his anger burned,<n id="5" /> and so<n id="6" /> the fire of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="7" /> burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

So when we cried to the <sc>Lordsc>, he heard our voice and sent a messenger,<n id="1" /> and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now<n id="2" /> we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab which was on the border of the Arnon at the boundary of his territory.