They<n id="1" /> will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites;<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you &#8211; from your fellow Israelites;<n id="1" /> you must listen to him.

you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge<n id="1" /> evil from among you.

The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages<n id="1" /> he prefers; you must not oppress him.p>

The foreigners<n id="1" /> who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

your infants, your wives, and the<n id="1" /> foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water &#8211;

<p class="bodytext">Joshua told the people, &#8220;Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the <sc>Lordsc> will perform miraculous deeds among you.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.p>

The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.p>

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

They threw away the foreign gods they owned<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. Finally the <sc>Lordsc> grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much.<n id="3" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> answered Elijah&#8217;s prayer; the boy&#8217;s breath returned to him and he lived.

<p class="poetry">For<n id="1" /> they do not speak the truth;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">their stomachs are like the place of destruction,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">their throats like an open grave,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">my anxiety intensified.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">As I thought about it, I became impatient.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Finally I spoke these words:<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">God lives within it,<n id="1" /> it cannot be moved.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">God rescues it<n id="3" /> at the break of dawn.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their grave becomes their permanent residence,p> <p class="poetry">their eternal dwelling place.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They name their lands after themselves,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Create for me a pure heart, O God!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Renew a resolute spirit within me!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Day and night they walk around on its walls,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">while wickedness and destruction<n id="2" /> are within it.p>