<p class="poetry">O God, you are aware of my foolish sins;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my guilt is not hidden from you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">even the darkness is not too dark for you to see,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the night is as bright as<n id="2" /> day;p> <p class="poetry">darkness and light are the same to you.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">my bones were not hidden from you,p> <p class="poetry">when<n id="1" /> I was made in secretp> <p class="poetry">and sewed together in the depths of the earth.<n id="2" />p>

&#8216;Some of your very own descendants whom you father<n id="1" /> will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="poetry">In a burst<n id="1" /> of anger I rejected you<n id="2" /> momentarily,p> <p class="poetry">but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says your protector,<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">So<n id="1" /> take warning, Jerusalem,p> <p class="poetry">or I will abandon you in disgust<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and make you desolate,p> <p class="poetry">a place where no one can live.&#8221;p>

I will exhaust my rage on you, and then my fury will turn from you. I will calm down and no longer be angry.p>

Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation,<n id="1" /> full of turmoil.p>

<p class="poetry">I will drench the land with the flowp> <p class="poetry">of your blood up to the mountains,p> <p class="poetry">and the ravines will be full of your blood.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">shave your foreheads as bald<n id="2" /> as an eagle,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">for they are taken from you into exile.p>

When he<n id="1" /> blesses you, if the<n id="2" /> place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

Jacob became furious<n id="1" /> with Rachel and exclaimed, &#8220;Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?&#8221;<n id="2" />

Then God said to him, &#8220;I am the sovereign God.<n id="1" /> Be fruitful and multiply! A nation &#8211; even a company of nations &#8211; will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!<n id="2" />

You will oversee my household, and all my people will submit to your commands.<n id="1" /> Only I, the king, will be greater than you.<n id="2" />p>

Moses said to Pharaoh, &#8220;You may have the honor over me<n id="1" /> &#8211; when shall I pray for you, your servants, and your people, for the frogs to be removed<n id="2" /> from you and your houses, so that<n id="3" /> they will be left<n id="4" /> only in the Nile?&#8221;

You will surely wear out,<n id="1" /> both you and these people who are with you, for this is too<n id="2" /> heavy a burden<n id="3" /> for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.<n id="1" />

The <sc>Lordsc> will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.<n id="1" />

the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth<n id="1" /> to the other).