so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the <sc>Lordsc> your God is making with you today.<n id="1" />

The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s messenger appeared and said to him, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is with you, courageous warrior!&#8221;

The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Ah, but<n id="1" /> I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Nathan replied to the king, &#8220;You should go<n id="1" /> and do whatever you have in mind,<n id="2" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> is with you.&#8221;

After all,<n id="1" /> they are your people and your special possession<n id="2" /> whom you brought out of Egypt, from the middle of the iron-smelting furnace.<n id="3" />p>

Nathan said to David, &#8220;You should do whatever you have in mind,<n id="1" /> for God is with you.&#8221;p>

in using gold, silver, bronze, and iron.<n id="1" /> Get up and begin the work! May the <sc>Lordsc> be with you!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Do you fix your eye<n id="1" /> on such a one?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">And do you bring me<n id="3" /> before you for judgment?p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Look now at Behemoth,<n id="2" /> which I made as<n id="3" /> I made you;p> <p class="poetry">it eats grass like the ox.p>

<p class="poetry">Deliver your people!p> <p class="poetry">Empower<n id="1" /> the nation that belongs to you!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms<n id="3" /> at all times!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Listen, O princess!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Observe and pay attention!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Forget your homeland<n id="3" /> and your family!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture,p> <p class="poetry">will continually thank you.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">We will tell coming generations of your praiseworthy acts.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc> God, invincible warrior!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your people willingly follow you<n id="1" /> when you go into battle.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">On the holy hills<n id="3" /> at sunrise<n id="4" /> the dew of your youth<n id="5" /> belongs to you.<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Maidens to the Beloved:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Where has your beloved gone,p> <p class="poetry">O most beautiful among women?p> <p class="poetry">Where has your beloved turned?p> <p class="poetry">Tell us,<n id="1" /> that we may seek him with you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for you, son of man, turn toward<n id="1" /> the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination.<n id="2" /> Prophesy against them

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Yet your people<n id="1" /> say, &#8216;The behavior<n id="2" /> of the Lord is not right,&#8217;<n id="3" /> when it is their behavior that is not right.

When your people<n id="1" /> say to you, &#8216;Will you not tell us what these things mean?&#8217;

<p class="poetry">You stumble day and night,p> <p class="poetry">and the false prophets stumble with you;p> <p class="poetry">You have destroyed your own people!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your warriors will be like women in your midst;p> <p class="poetry">the gates of your land will be wide open<n id="1" /> to your enemies;p> <p class="poetry">fire will consume<n id="2" /> the bars of your gates.<n id="3" />p>