She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>. She will become plunder for the nations,

<p class="poetry">The elders of Gebal<n id="1" /> and her skilled men were within you, mending cracks;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">all the ships of the sea and their mariners were within you to trade for your merchandise.<n id="3" />p>

The border will run from the sea to Hazar-enan, at the border of Damascus, and on the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, the river,<n id="1" /> to the Great Sea. This is the south side.

Next to the border of Gad, at the south side, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the Stream of Egypt<n id="1" /> and on to the Great Sea.

<p class="poetry">Therefore the land will mourn,p> <p class="poetry">and all its inhabitants will perish.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The wild animals,<n id="2" /> the birds of the sky,p> <p class="poetry">and even the fish in the sea will perish.p>

<p class="poetry">(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;p> <p class="poetry">he can turn the darkness into morningp> <p class="poetry">and daylight<n id="1" /> into night.p> <p class="poetry">He summons the water of the seasp> <p class="poetry">and pours it out on the earth&#8217;s surface.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is his name!p>

<p class="poetry">Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel,p> <p class="poetry">I would hunt them down and take them from there.p> <p class="poetry">Even if they tried to hide from me<n id="1" /> at the bottom of the sea,p> <p class="poetry">from there<n id="2" /> I would command the Sea Serpent<n id="3" /> to bite them.p>

<p class="poetry">He builds the upper rooms of his palace<n id="1" /> in heavenp> <p class="poetry">and sets its foundation supports<n id="2" /> on the earth.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">He summons the water of the seap> <p class="poetry">and pours it out on the earth&#8217;s surface.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is his name.p>

But<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> hurled<n id="2" /> a powerful<n id="3" /> wind on the sea. Such a violent<n id="4" /> tempest arose on the sea that<n id="5" /> the ship threatened to break up!<n id="6" />

He said to them, &#8220;I am a Hebrew! And I worship<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" /> the God of heaven,<n id="3" /> who made the sea and the dry land.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Those who live by the sea, the people who came from Crete,<n id="1" /> are as good as dead.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has decreed your downfall,<n id="3" /> Canaan, land of the Philistines:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I will destroy everyone who lives there!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then God said, &#8220;Let us make<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">humankind<n id="2" /> in our image, after our likeness,<n id="3" /> so they may rule<n id="4" /> over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth,<n id="5" /> and over all the creatures that move<n id="6" /> on the earth.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">God blessed<n id="1" /> them and said<n id="2" /> to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it!<n id="3" /> Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.&#8221;<n id="4" />

Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you.<n id="1" /> Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.<n id="2" />

I will indeed bless you,<n id="1" /> and I will greatly multiply<n id="2" /> your descendants<n id="3" /> so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession<n id="4" /> of the strongholds<n id="5" /> of their enemies.

The Egyptians chased after them, and all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-Zephon.

For in six days the <sc>Lordsc> made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the <sc>Lordsc> blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a wind<n id="1" /> went out<n id="2" /> from the <sc>Lordsc> and brought quail<n id="3" /> from the sea, and let them fall<n id="4" /> near the camp, about a day&#8217;s journey on this side, and about a day&#8217;s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet<n id="5" /> high on the surface of the ground.

Get up now,<n id="1" /> resume your journey, heading for<n id="2" /> the Amorite hill country, to all its areas<n id="3" /> including the arid country,<n id="4" /> the highlands, the Shephelah,<n id="5" /> the Negev,<n id="6" /> and the coastal plain &#8211; all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.