<p class="poetry">When you cry out for help, let your idols<n id="1" /> help you!p> <p class="poetry">The wind blows them all away,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">a breeze carries them away.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">But the one who looks to me for help<n id="4" /> will inherit the landp> <p class="poetry">and will have access to<n id="5" /> my holy mountain.&#8221;p>

You must also say, &#8216;In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" /> Jacob thought,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I will first appease him<n id="3" /> by sending a gift ahead of me.<n id="4" /> After that I will meet him.<n id="5" /> Perhaps he will accept me.&#8221;<n id="6" />

In three more days Pharaoh will reinstate you<n id="1" /> and restore you to your office. You will put Pharaoh&#8217;s cup in his hand, just as you did before<n id="2" /> when you were cupbearer.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;If a man has sexual intercourse with<n id="1" /> his sister, whether the daughter of his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of the children of their people.<n id="2" /> He has exposed his sister&#8217;s nakedness; he will bear his punishment for iniquity.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">But<n id="1" /> the man who is ceremonially clean, and was not on a journey, and fails<n id="2" /> to keep the Passover, that person must be cut off from his people.<n id="3" /> Because he did not bring the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s offering at its appointed time, that man must bear his sin.<n id="4" />

Did I conceive this entire people?<n id="1" /> Did I give birth to<n id="2" /> them, that you should say to me, &#8216;Carry them in your arms, as a foster father<n id="3" /> bears a nursing child,&#8217; to the land which you swore to their fathers?

and in the desert, where you saw him<n id="1" /> carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.&#8221;

For the <sc>Lordsc> your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,

<p class="bodytext">Joshua warned<n id="1" /> the people, &#8220;You will not keep worshiping<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, for<n id="3" /> he is a holy God.<n id="4" /> He is a jealous God who will not forgive<n id="5" /> your rebellion or your sins.

Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">He will judge disputes between nations;p> <p class="poetry">he will settle cases for many peoples.p> <p class="poetry">They will beat their swords into plowshares,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and their spears into pruning hooks.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,p> <p class="poetry">and they will no longer train for war.p>

<p class="bodytext">So<n id="1" /> here is what the sovereign master, the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies, says: &#8220;My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of Assyria, even though they beat you with a club and lift their cudgel against you as Egypt did.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The prince<n id="1" /> who is among them will raise his belongings<n id="2" /> onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He<n id="3" /> will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

<p class="poetry">In that day people will sing this taunt song to you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">they will mock you with this lament:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;We are completely destroyed;p> <p class="poetry">they sell off<n id="2" /> the property of my people.p> <p class="poetry">How they remove it from me!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They assign our fields to the conqueror.&#8217;<n id="4" />p>

If someone carries holy meat in a fold of his garment and that fold touches bread, a boiled dish, wine, olive oil, or any other food, will that item become holy?&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" /> The priests answered, &#8220;It will not.&#8221;

Indeed, he will build the temple of the <sc>Lord,sc> and he will be clothed in splendor, sitting as king on his throne. Moreover, there will be a priest<n id="1" /> with him on his throne and they will see eye to eye on everything.