<p class="poetry">Nations will see this and be disappointed by<n id="1" /> all their strength,p> <p class="poetry">they will put their hands over their mouths,p> <p class="poetry">and act as if they were deaf.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Because<n id="1" /> you have acted like a wanton prostitute<n id="2" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">a seductive mistress who practices sorcery,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">who<n id="4" /> enslaves<n id="5" /> nations by her harlotry,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">and entices peoples by her sorcery<n id="7" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">Will he then<n id="1" /> continue to fill and empty his throw net?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Will he always<n id="3" /> destroy<n id="4" /> nations and spare none?<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the <sc>Lordsc> your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you &#8211; Hittites,<n id="1" /> Girgashites,<n id="2" /> Amorites,<n id="3" /> Canaanites,<n id="4" /> Perizzites,<n id="5" /> Hivites,<n id="6" /> and Jebusites,<n id="7" /> seven<n id="8" /> nations more numerous and powerful than you &#8211;

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time<n id="1" /> Amraphel king of Shinar,<n id="2" /> Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations<n id="3" />

Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of nations,<n id="1" /> Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar. Four kings fought against<n id="2" /> five.

No longer will your name be<n id="1" /> Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham<n id="2" /> because I will make you<n id="3" /> the father of a multitude of nations.

and the <sc>Lordsc> said to her,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Two nations<n id="1" /> are in your womb,p> <p class="poetry">and two peoples will be separated from within you.p> <p class="poetry">One people will be stronger than the other,p> <p class="poetry">and the older will serve the younger.&#8221;p>

Then God said to him, &#8220;I am the sovereign God.<n id="1" /> Be fruitful and multiply! A nation &#8211; even a company of nations &#8211; will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">God brought them out of Egypt.p> <p class="poetry">They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull;p> <p class="poetry">they will devour hostile people<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and will break their bonesp> <p class="poetry">and will pierce them through with arrows.p>

to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Cry out, O nations, with his people,p> <p class="poetry">for he will avenge his servants&#8217; blood;p> <p class="poetry">he will take vengeance against his enemies,p> <p class="poetry">and make atonement for his land and people.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you<n id="1" /> to this very day.

<p class="poetry">Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the <sc>Lordsc> and turn to him!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let all the nations<n id="2" /> worship you!<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A psalm of Asaph.p> <p class="poetry">O God, foreigners<n id="2" /> have invaded your chosen land;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they have polluted your holy templep> <p class="poetry">and turned Jerusalem<n id="4" /> into a heap of ruins.p>

<p class="poetry">But he does not agree with this,p> <p class="poetry">his mind does not reason this way,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for his goal is to destroy,p> <p class="poetry">and to eliminate many nations.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time<n id="1" /> a root from Jesse<n id="2" /> will stand like a signal flag for the nations. Nations will look to him for guidance,<n id="3" /> and his residence will be majestic.

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">There is a loud noise on the mountains &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">it sounds like a large army!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">There is great commotion among the kingdoms<n id="3" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">nations are being assembled!p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies is musteringp> <p class="poetry">forces for battle.p>

<p class="poetry">Sheol<n id="1" /> below is stirred up about you,p> <p class="poetry">ready to meet you when you arrive.p> <p class="poetry">It rouses<n id="2" /> the spirits of the dead for you,p> <p class="poetry">all the former leaders of the earth;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">it makes all the former kings of the nationsp> <p class="poetry">rise from their thrones.<n id="4" />p>