<p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t be so happy, all you Philistines,p> <p class="poetry">just because the club that beat you has been broken!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For a viper will grow out of the serpent&#8217;s root,p> <p class="poetry">and its fruit will be a darting adder.<n id="2" />p>

The king<n id="1" /> heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia<n id="2" /> was marching out to fight him.<n id="3" /> He again sent<n id="4" /> messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> emerges like a hero,p> <p class="poetry">like a warrior he inspires himself for battle;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he shouts, yes, he yells,p> <p class="poetry">he shows his enemies his power.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I solemnly make this oath<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">what I say is true and reliable:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Surely every knee will bow to me,p> <p class="poetry">every tongue will solemnly affirm;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am ready to vindicate,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I am ready to deliver,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will establish justice among the nations.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The coastlands<n id="4" /> wait patiently for me;p> <p class="poetry">they wait in anticipation for the revelation of my power.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;For the sake of Zion I will not be silent;p> <p class="poetry">for the sake of Jerusalem<n id="1" /> I will not be quiet,p> <p class="poetry">until her vindication shines brightly<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and her deliverance burns like a torch.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Like a lion that has come up from its lair<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who destroys nations has set out from his home base.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He is coming out to lay your land waste.p> <p class="poetry">Your cities will become ruins and lie uninhabited.p>

At that time the Babylonian forces<n id="1" /> had temporarily given up their siege against Jerusalem.<n id="2" /> They had had it under siege, but withdrew when they heard that the army of Pharaoh had set out from Egypt.<n id="3" />)

<p class="poetry">In the shadows of the walls of Heshbonp> <p class="poetry">those trying to escape will stand helpless.p> <p class="poetry">For a fire will burst forth from Heshbon.p> <p class="poetry">Flames will shoot out from the former territory of Sihon.p> <p class="poetry">They will burn the foreheads of the people of Moab,p> <p class="poetry">the skulls of those war-loving people.<n id="1" />p>

Only the prince may sit in it to eat a sacrificial meal<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc>; he will enter by way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the same way.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">From one of them came a small horn.<n id="1" /> But it grew to be very big, toward the south and the east and toward the beautiful land.<n id="2" />

At the beginning of your requests a message went out, and I have come to convey it to you, for you are of great value in God&#8217;s sight.<n id="1" /> Therefore consider the message and understand the vision:<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Gather the people;p> <p class="poetry">sanctify an assembly!p> <p class="poetry">Gather the elders;p> <p class="poetry">gather the children and the nursing infants.p> <p class="poetry">Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroomp> <p class="poetry">and the bride from her private quarters.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> became angry with<n id="1" /> Moses, and he said, &#8220;What about<n id="2" /> your brother Aaron the Levite?<n id="3" /> I know that he can speak very well.<n id="4" /> Moreover, he is coming<n id="5" /> to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.<n id="6" />p>

See, because the <sc>Lordsc> has given you the Sabbath, that is why<n id="1" /> he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are;<n id="2" /> let no one<n id="3" /> go out of his place on the seventh day.&#8221;

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Moses took<n id="2" /> the tent<n id="3" /> and pitched it outside the camp, at a good distance<n id="4" /> from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. Anyone<n id="5" /> seeking<n id="6" /> the <sc>Lordsc> would go out to the tent of meeting that was outside the camp.p>

If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended,<n id="1" /> the house in the walled city<n id="2" /> will belong without reclaim<n id="3" /> to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

<p class="bodytext">And they were as follows:p> <p class="bodytext">The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.

<p class="bodytext">From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them<n id="1" /> twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.

but a whole month,<n id="1" /> until it comes out your nostrils and makes you sick,<n id="2" /> because you have despised<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> who is among you and have wept before him, saying, &#8220;Why<n id="4" /> did we ever come out of Egypt?&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;p>