<p class="poetry">O sovereign <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">intervene on my behalf for the sake of your reputation!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Because your loyal love is good, deliver me!p>

<p class="poetry">Yes,<n id="1" /> I know the <sc>Lordsc> is great,p> <p class="poetry">and our Lord is superior to all gods.p>

<p class="poetry">O sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, my strong deliverer,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you shield<n id="2" /> my head in the day of battle.p>

<p class="poetry">Surely I am looking to you,<n id="1" /> O sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p> <p class="poetry">In you I take shelter.p> <p class="poetry">Do not expose me to danger!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why do you crush my peoplep> <p class="poetry">and grind the faces of the poor?&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies<n id="2" /> has spoken.p>

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">At that time<n id="2" /> the sovereign master will remove their beautiful ankle jewelry,<n id="3" /> neck ornaments, crescent shaped ornaments,

The sovereign master, the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For this is what the sovereign master<n id="1" /> has told me:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Go, post a guard!p> <p class="poetry">He must report what he sees.p>

<p class="poetry">At that time the sovereign master, the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning,p> <p class="poetry">for shaved heads and sackcloth.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">O sovereign master, your decrees can give men life;p> <p class="poetry">may years of life be restored to me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Restore my health<n id="2" /> and preserve my life.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> has spoken to me clearly;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have not rebelled,p> <p class="poetry">I have not turned back.p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says this,p> <p class="poetry">the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will still gather them up.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> will kill you,p> <p class="poetry">but he will give his servants another name.p>

<p class="bodytext">I answered, &#8220;Oh, Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="1" /> I really<n id="2" /> do not know how to speak well enough for that,<n id="3" /> for I am too young.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<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="bodytext">&#8220;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: A disaster<n id="1" /> &#8211; a one-of-a-kind<n id="2" /> disaster &#8211; is coming!

But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done,<n id="1" /> says the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

I will make<n id="1" /> the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;After all of your evil &#8211; &#8220;Woe! Woe to you!&#8221; declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> &#8211;