<p class="poetry">At that time,&#8221;<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will destroy the wise sages of Edom!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the advisers<n id="3" /> from Esau&#8217;s mountain!<n id="4" />p>

Who knows?<n id="1" /> Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent<n id="2" /> and turn from his fierce anger<n id="3" /> so that we might not die.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will destroy<n id="1" /> your horses from your midst,p> <p class="poetry">and smash your chariots.p>

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images,<n id="1" /> and demolish their high places.

I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you<n id="1" /> today that you will surely and swiftly be removed<n id="2" /> from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be<n id="3" /> annihilated.

Now if you forget the <sc>Lordsc> your God at all<n id="1" /> and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

You must by all means destroy<n id="1" /> all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods &#8211; on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.<n id="2" />

I declare to you this very day that you will certainly<n id="1" /> perish! You will not extend your time in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.<n id="2" />

As for any person<n id="1" /> who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate<n id="2" /> that person from the midst of his people!<n id="3" />

They and all that they had went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed over them. So they perished from among the community.

<p class="poetry">Woe to you, Moab.p> <p class="poetry">You are ruined, O people of Chemosh!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He has made his sons fugitives,p> <p class="poetry">and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.p>

He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory.<n id="1" /> Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars,<n id="1" /> burn up their sacred Asherah poles,<n id="2" /> and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor<n id="1" /> has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">May all your enemies perish like this, O <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">But may those who love you shinep> <p class="poetry">like the rising sun at its brightest!&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">And the land had rest for forty years.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line.<n id="1" />

They have burned the gods of the nations,<n id="1" /> for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.<n id="2" />

For we have been sold<n id="1" /> &#8211; both I and my people &#8211; to destruction and to slaughter and to annihilation! If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not have been sufficient for troubling the king.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Give sincere homage!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Otherwise he<n id="2" /> will be angry,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and you will die because of your behavior,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">when his anger quickly ignites.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">How blessed<n id="6" /> are all who take shelter in him!<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> look at your enemies, O <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="2" /> look at how your enemies perish!p> <p class="poetry">All the evildoers are scattered!p>