<p class="poetry">The fishermen will mourn and lament,p> <p class="poetry">all those who cast a fishhook into the river,p> <p class="poetry">and those who spread out a net on the water&#8217;s surface will grieve.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Though at this time your ropes are slack,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the mast is not secured,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the sail<n id="3" /> is not unfurled,p> <p class="poetry">at that time you will divide up a great quantity of loot;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">even the lame will drag off plunder.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Hezekiah took the letter<n id="1" /> from the messengers and read it.<n id="2" /> Then Hezekiah went up to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and spread it out before the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">I spread out my hands all day longp> <p class="poetry">to my rebellious people,p> <p class="poetry">who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable,p> <p class="poetry">and who did what they desired.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings,p> <p class="poetry">a nation will soar up and swoop down on Bozrah.p> <p class="poetry">At that time the soldiers of Edom will be as fearfulp> <p class="poetry">as a woman in labor.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1497; (<i>Yodi>)p> <p class="poetry">An enemy grabbed<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all her valuables.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed she watched in horror<n id="3" /> as Gentiles<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">invaded her holy temple<n id="5" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">those whom you<n id="6" /> had commanded:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;They must not enter<n id="7" /> your assembly place.&#8221;<n id="8" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1502; (<i>Memi>)p> <p class="poetry">He sent down fire<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">into my bones, and it overcame<n id="2" /> them.p> <p class="poetry">He spread out a trapper&#8217;s net<n id="3" /> for my feet;p> <p class="poetry">he made me turn back.p> <p class="poetry">He has made me desolate;p> <p class="poetry">I am faint all day long.p>

<t /><p class="lamhebrew">&#1508; (<i>Pei>)p> <p class="poetry">Zion spread out her hands,p> <p class="poetry">but there is no one to comfort her.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has issued a decree against Jacob;p> <p class="poetry">his neighbors<n id="1" /> have become his enemies.p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem has becomep> <p class="poetry">like filthy garbage<n id="2" /> in their midst.<n id="3" />p>

But I will throw my net over him, and he will be caught in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans<n id="1" /> (but he will not see it),<n id="2" /> and there he will die.<n id="3" />

I will throw my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there because of the unfaithfulness he committed against me.

All the choice men<n id="1" /> among his troops will die<n id="2" /> by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the <sc>Lord,sc> have spoken!p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;I will throw my net over you<n id="1" /> in the assembly of many peoples;p> <p class="poetry">and they will haul you up in my dragnet.p>

<p class="poetry">You<n id="1" /> devour my people&#8217;s flesh,p> <p class="poetry">strip off their skin,p> <p class="poetry">and crush their bones.p> <p class="poetry">You chop them up like flesh in a pot<n id="2" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">like meat in a kettle.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You there!<n id="1" /> Flee from the northland!&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;for like the four winds of heaven<n id="2" /> I have scattered you,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">Moses said to him, &#8220;When I leave the city<n id="1" /> I will spread my hands to the <sc>Lordsc>, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;On the table of the presence<n id="1" /> they must spread a blue<n id="2" /> cloth, and put on it the dishes, the pans, the bowls, and the pitchers for pouring, and the Bread of the Presence must be on it continually.

Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there &#8211; the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar &#8211; and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles.<n id="1" />p>

He put the cherubs in the inner sanctuary of the temple.<n id="1" /> Their wings were spread out. One of the first cherub&#8217;s wings touched one wall and one of the other cherub&#8217;s wings touched the opposite wall. The first cherub&#8217;s other wing touched the second cherub&#8217;s other wing in the middle of the room.<n id="2" />

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,<n id="1" /> as they acknowledge their pain<n id="2" /> and spread out their hands toward this temple,

<p class="bodytext">When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the <sc>Lordsc>, he got up from before the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky.<n id="1" />