<p class="poetry">They will lament loudly<n id="1" /> over you and cry bitterly.p> <p class="poetry">They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Many of those who sleepp> <p class="poetry">in the dusty ground will awake &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">some to everlasting life,p> <p class="poetry">and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t spread the news in Gath!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t shed even a single tear!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">In Beth Leaphrah sit in the dust!<n id="3" />p>

They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people<n id="1" /> and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

The <sc>Lordsc> God formed<n id="1" /> the man from the soil of the ground<n id="2" /> and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,<n id="3" /> and the man became a living being.<n id="4" />p>

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.<n id="1" />

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up<n id="1" /> all the wells that his father&#8217;s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.p>

He must tear down the house,<n id="1" /> its stones, its wood, and all the plaster of the house, and bring all of it<n id="2" /> outside the city to an unclean place.

<p class="poetry">Who<n id="1" /> can count<n id="2" /> the dust<n id="3" /> of Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">Or number<n id="4" /> the fourth part of Israel?p> <p class="poetry">Let me<n id="5" /> die the death of the upright,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">and let the end of my life<n id="7" /> be like theirs.&#8221;<n id="8" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will be starved by famine,p> <p class="poetry">eaten by plague, and bitterly stung;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will send the teeth of wild animals against them,p> <p class="poetry">along with the poison of creatures that crawl in the dust.p>

But when they gazed intently<n id="1" /> from a distance but did not recognize<n id="2" /> him, they began to weep loudly. Each of them tore his robes, and they threw dust into the air over their heads.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">All of the thriving people<n id="1" /> of the earth will join the celebration and worship;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">all those who are descending into the grave<n id="3" /> will bow before him,p> <p class="poetry">including those who cannot preserve their lives.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They<n id="1" /> will go into caves in the rocky cliffsp> <p class="poetry">and into holes in the ground,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and his royal splendor,p> <p class="poetry">when he rises up to terrify the earth.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> knocks down those who live in a high place,p> <p class="poetry">he brings down an elevated town;p> <p class="poetry">he brings it down to the ground,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he throws it down to the dust.p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Your dead will come back to life;p> <p class="poetry">your corpses will rise up.p> <p class="poetry">Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Who has measured out the waters<n id="1" /> in the hollow of his hand,p> <p class="poetry">or carefully<n id="2" /> measured the sky,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">or carefully weighed<n id="4" /> the soil of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">or weighed the mountains in a balance,p> <p class="poetry">or the hills on scales?<n id="5" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1497; (<i>Yodi>)p> <p class="poetry">The elders of Daughter Zionp> <p class="poetry">sit<n id="1" /> on the ground in silence.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They have thrown dirt on their heads;p> <p class="poetry">They have dressed in sackcloth.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem&#8217;s young women<n id="4" /> stare down at the ground.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">For her blood was in it;p> <p class="poetry">she poured it on an exposed rock;p> <p class="poetry">she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.p>

<p class="poetry">They will lick the dust like a snake,p> <p class="poetry">like serpents crawling on the ground.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will come trembling from their strongholdsp> <p class="poetry">to the <sc>Lordsc> our God;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they will be terrified<n id="3" /> of you.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They mock kingsp> <p class="poetry">and laugh at rulers.p> <p class="poetry">They laugh at every fortified city;p> <p class="poetry">they build siege ramps<n id="1" /> and capture them.p>