<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Look, my servant will succeed!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He will be elevated, lifted high, and greatly exalted<n id="2" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">Moab&#8217;s destruction is at hand.p> <p class="poetry">Disaster will come on it quickly.p>

<p class="poetry">unless<n id="1" /> you have utterly rejected us<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">and are angry with us beyond measure.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Look! I will<n id="2" /> make you a weak nation;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you will be greatly despised!p>

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased.<n id="1" /> So Cain became very angry,<n id="2" /> and his expression was downcast.<n id="3" />p>

The waters completely overwhelmed<n id="1" /> the earth, and the ark floated<n id="2" /> on the surface of the waters.

<p class="bodytext">When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;The outcry against<n id="1" /> Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant<n id="2" />

The man became wealthy.<n id="1" /> His influence continued to grow<n id="2" /> until he became very prominent.

<p class="bodytext">Then Abimelech said to Isaac, &#8220;Leave us and go elsewhere,<n id="1" /> for you have become much more powerful<n id="2" /> than we are.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.p>

Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage.<n id="1" />p>

A mixed multitude<n id="1" /> also went up with them, and flocks and herds &#8211; a very large number of cattle.<n id="2" />

When the sound of the horn grew louder and louder,<n id="1" /> Moses was speaking<n id="2" /> and God was answering him with a voice.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">(Now the man Moses was very humble,<n id="1" /> more so than any man on the face of the earth.)p>

When Moses told<n id="1" /> these things to all the Israelites, the people mourned<n id="2" /> greatly.p>

You must love<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God with your whole mind,<n id="2" /> your whole being,<n id="3" /> and all your strength.<n id="4" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him<n id="1" /> too.

He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)p>

Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the <sc>Lordsc> for help.p>