From<n id="1" /> the three he was given double honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of them.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then let the trees of the forest shout with joy before the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">for he comes to judge the earth!p>

When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had invaded and intended to attack Jerusalem,<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">On that same day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was brought to the king&#8217;s attention.

and a messenger came to Job, saying, &#8220;The oxen were plowing<n id="1" /> and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

<p class="poetry">before the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">For he comes to judge the earth!p> <p class="poetry">He judges the world fairly,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the nations in a just manner.p>

<p class="poetry">You will rise up and have compassion on Zion.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For it is time to have mercy on her,p> <p class="poetry">for the appointed time has come.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag<n id="1" /> of seed,p> <p class="poetry">will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Just as dreams come when there are many cares,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so<n id="2" /> the rash vow<n id="3" /> of a fool occurs<n id="4" /> when there are many words.p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved about Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Listen!<n id="1" /> My lover is approaching!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Look!<n id="3" /> Here he comes,p> <p class="poetry">leaping over the mountains,p> <p class="poetry">bounding over the hills!p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> revealed the following message during the year in which King Sargon of Assyria sent his commanding general to Ashdod, and he fought against it and captured it.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="poetry">Here is a message about the Desert by the Sea:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Like strong winds blowing in the south,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">one invades from the desert,p> <p class="poetry">from a land that is feared.p>

<p class="poetry">He will go back the way he came &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">he will not enter this city,&#8217; says the <sc>Lord.sc>p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Arise! Shine! For your light arrives!p> <p class="poetry">The splendor<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> shines on you!p>

<p class="poetry">&#8216;Death has climbed in<n id="1" /> through our windows.p> <p class="poetry">It has entered into our fortified houses.p> <p class="poetry">It has taken away our children who play in the streets.p> <p class="poetry">It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.&#8217;p>

(Now Jeremiah had not yet been put in prison.<n id="1" /> So he was still free to come and go among the people as he pleased.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Judgment will come on the cities on the high plain:<n id="1" /> on Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,

<p class="poetry">Kill all her soldiers!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them be slaughtered!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They are doomed,<n id="3" /> for their day of reckoning<n id="4" /> has come,p> <p class="poetry">the time for them to be punished.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">says the Lord <sc>Godsc> who rules over all.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Indeed,<n id="3" /> your day of reckoning<n id="4" /> has come,p> <p class="poetry">the time when I will punish you.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Look! An army is about to come from the north.p> <p class="poetry">A mighty nation and many kings<n id="1" /> are stirring into actionp> <p class="poetry">in faraway parts of the earth.p>