<t /><p class="bodytext">I said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will weep and mourn<n id="2" /> for the grasslands on the mountains,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wildernessp> <p class="poetry">because they are so scorched no one travels through them.p> <p class="poetry">The sound of livestock is no longer heard there.p> <p class="poetry">Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fieldsp> <p class="poetry">have fled and are gone.&#8221;p>

to loot and plunder, to attack<n id="1" /> the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center<n id="2" /> of the earth.&#8221;

Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish with all its young warriors<n id="1" /> will say to you, &#8220;Have you come to loot? Have you assembled your armies to plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to haul away a great amount of spoils?&#8221;&#8217;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">David assembled in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> all the officials of Israel, including the commanders of the tribes, the commanders of the army divisions that served the king, the commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, the officials who were in charge of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, the eunuchs, and the warriors, including the most skilled of them.p>