<p class="poetry">Wild oxen will be slaughtered<n id="1" /> along with them,p> <p class="poetry">as well as strong bulls.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Their land is drenched with blood,p> <p class="poetry">their soil is covered with fat.p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed<n id="1" /> Sheol does not give you thanks;p> <p class="poetry">death does not<n id="2" /> praise you.p> <p class="poetry">Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.p>

<p class="poetry">Sing to the <sc>Lordsc> a brand new song!p> <p class="poetry">Praise him<n id="1" /> from the horizon of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you coastlands<n id="3" /> and those who live there!p>

<p class="poetry">When you performed awesome deeds that took us by surprise,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you came down, and the mountains trembled<n id="2" /> before you.p>

<p class="poetry">I said, &#8220;Indeed,<n id="1" /> let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us.p> <p class="poetry">Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyesp> <p class="poetry">and our eyelids overflow with water.p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> told me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Tell the king and the queen mother,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Surrender your thrones,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for your glorious crownsp> <p class="poetry">will be removed<n id="3" /> from your heads.<n id="4" />p>

So I went down to the potter&#8217;s house and found him working<n id="1" /> at his wheel.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> told me,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Go down<n id="2" /> to the palace of the king of Judah. Give him a message from me there.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Kill all her soldiers!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them be slaughtered!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They are doomed,<n id="3" /> for their day of reckoning<n id="4" /> has come,p> <p class="poetry">the time for them to be punished.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">They will descend from their ships &#8211; all who handle the oar,p> <p class="poetry">the sailors and all the sea captains &#8211; they will stand on the land.p>

I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying,p> <p class="poetry">I will bring them down like birds in the sky;p> <p class="poetry">I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.p>

<p class="poetry">Even if they could dig down into the netherworld,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my hand would pull them up from there.p> <p class="poetry">Even if they could climb up to heaven,p> <p class="poetry">I would drag them down from there.p>

<p class="poetry">Even if you were to soar high like an eagle,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">even if you<n id="2" /> were to make your nest among the stars,p> <p class="poetry">I can bring you down even from there!&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Look,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> is coming out of his dwelling place!p> <p class="poetry">He will descend and march on the earth&#8217;s mountaintops!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, the residents of Maroth<n id="1" /> hope for something good to happen,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">though the <sc>Lordsc> has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.<n id="3" />p>

But Jacob<n id="1" /> replied, &#8220;My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left.<n id="2" /> If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair<n id="3" /> in sorrow to the grave.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

But we replied, &#8216;We cannot go down there.<n id="1" /> If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go,<n id="2" /> for we won&#8217;t be permitted to see the man&#8217;s face if our youngest brother is not with us.&#8217;p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now when Moses came down<n id="2" /> from Mount Sinai with<n id="3" /> the two tablets of the testimony in his hand<n id="4" /> &#8211; when he came down<n id="5" /> from the mountain, Moses<n id="6" /> did not know that the skin of his face shone<n id="7" /> while he talked with him.

the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing.<n id="1" /> It piled up far upstream<n id="2" /> at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea).<n id="3" /> The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.<n id="4" />