But seven years of famine will occur<n id="1" /> after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate<n id="2" /> the land.

(for he<n id="1" /> is a merciful God), he will not let you down<n id="2" /> or destroy you, for he cannot<n id="3" /> forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Be sure you do not forget the <sc>Lordsc> your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The Israelites did evil in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight.<n id="1" /> They forgot the <sc>Lordsc> their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But they forgot the <sc>Lordsc> their God, so he gave<n id="1" /> them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor&#8217;s<n id="2" /> army,<n id="3" /> and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">How long, <sc>Lordsc>, will you continue to ignore me?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">How long will you pay no attention to me?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the wise man, like<n id="1" /> the fool, will not be remembered for very long,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because<n id="3" /> in the days to come, both will already have been forgotten.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Alas,<n id="5" /> the wise man dies &#8211; just like<n id="6" /> the fool!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Not only that,<n id="1" /> but I have seen the wicked approaching<n id="2" /> and entering the temple,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and as they left the holy temple,<n id="4" /> theyp> <p class="poetry">boasted<n id="5" /> in the city that they had done so.p> <p class="poetry">This also is an enigma.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything;p> <p class="poetry">they have no further reward &#8211; and even the memory of them disappears.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For you ignore<n id="1" /> the God who rescues you;p> <p class="poetry">you pay no attention to your strong protector.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">So this is what happens:p> <p class="poetry">You cultivate beautiful plantsp> <p class="poetry">and plant exotic vines.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">At that time<n id="1" /> Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years,<n id="2" /> the typical life span of a king.<n id="3" /> At the end of seventy years Tyre will try to attract attention again, like the prostitute in the popular song:<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">But as for you who abandon the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">and forget about worshiping at<n id="1" /> my holy mountain,p> <p class="poetry">who prepare a feast for the god called &#8216;Fortune,&#8217;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and fill up wine jugs for the god called &#8216;Destiny&#8217;<n id="3" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will do so in the name of the faithful God;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">whoever makes an oath in the earthp> <p class="poetry">will do so in the name of the faithful God.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For past problems will be forgotten;p> <p class="poetry">I will no longer think about them.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;A noise is heard on the hilltops.p> <p class="poetry">It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods.p> <p class="poetry">Indeed they have followed sinful ways;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they have forgotten to be true to the <sc>Lordsc> their God.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet my people have forgotten mep> <p class="poetry">and offered sacrifices to worthless idols!p> <p class="poetry">This makes them stumble along in the way they livep> <p class="poetry">and leave the old reliable path of their fathers.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They have left them to walk in bypaths,p> <p class="poetry">in roads that are not smooth and level.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">All your allies have abandoned you.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They no longer have any concern for you.p> <p class="poetry">For I have attacked you like an enemy would.p> <p class="poetry">I have chastened you cruelly.p> <p class="poetry">For your wickedness is so greatp> <p class="poetry">and your sin is so much.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will ask the way to Zion;p> <p class="poetry">they will turn their faces toward it.p> <p class="poetry">They will come<n id="1" /> and bind themselves to the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;My people have been lost sheep.p> <p class="poetry">Their shepherds<n id="1" /> have allow them to go astray.p> <p class="poetry">They have wandered around in the mountains.p> <p class="poetry">They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They have forgotten their resting place.p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1493; (<i>Vavi>)p> <p class="poetry">He destroyed his temple<n id="1" /> as if it were a vineyard;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he destroyed his appointed meeting place.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has made those in Zion forgetp> <p class="poetry">both the festivals and the Sabbaths.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">In his fierce anger<n id="4" /> he has spurned<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">both king and priest.p>

They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest;<n id="1" /> you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me,<n id="2" /> declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p>