<p class="poetry">It<n id="1" /> furiously struck down nationsp> <p class="poetry">with unceasing blows.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">It angrily ruled over nations,p> <p class="poetry">oppressing them without restraint.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">For the sake of my reputation<n id="1" /> I hold back my anger;p> <p class="poetry">for the sake of my prestige<n id="2" /> I restrain myself from destroying you.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desertp> <p class="poetry">and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> had brought this all aboutp> <p class="poetry">because of his blazing anger.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it.p> <p class="poetry">They will be disappointed in their harvests<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because the <sc>Lordsc> will take them away in his fierce anger.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will make you serve your enemies<n id="1" /> in a land that you know nothing about.p> <p class="poetry">For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.&#8221;p>

In anger, in fury, and in wrath I myself will fight against you with my mighty power and great strength!<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Get out of Babylon, my people!p> <p class="poetry">Flee to save your livesp> <p class="poetry">from the fierce anger of the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1499; (<i>Kafi>)p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> fully vented<n id="1" /> his wrath;p> <p class="poetry">he poured out his fierce anger.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He started a fire in Zion;p> <p class="poetry">it consumed her foundations.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1512; (<i>Reshi>)p> <p class="poetry">Our very life breath &#8211; the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s anointed king<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">was caught in their traps,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">of whom we thought,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Under his protection<n id="4" /> we will survive among the nations.&#8221;p>

I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.

<p class="poetry">O Samaria, he has rejected your calf idol!p> <p class="poetry">My anger burns against them!p> <p class="poetry">They will not survive much longer without being punished,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">even though they are Israelites!p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;I will heal their waywardness<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and love them freely,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for my anger will turn<n id="3" /> away from them.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" />

<p class="poetry">I will angrily seek vengeancep> <p class="poetry">on the nations that do not obey me.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">So the <sc>Lordsc> is furious<n id="1" /> with his people;p> <p class="poetry">he lifts<n id="2" /> his hand and strikes them.p> <p class="poetry">The mountains shake,p> <p class="poetry">and corpses lie like manure<n id="3" /> in the middle of the streets.p> <p class="poetry">Despite all this, his anger does not subside,p> <p class="poetry">and his hand is ready to strike again.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">before God&#8217;s decree becomes reality<n id="1" /> and the day of opportunity disappears like windblown chaff,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">before the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s raging anger<n id="3" /> overtakes<n id="4" /> you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">before the day of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s angry judgment overtakes you!p>

The <sc>Lordsc> God formed<n id="1" /> the man from the soil of the ground<n id="2" /> and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,<n id="3" /> and the man became a living being.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">By the sweat of your brow<n id="1" /> you will eat foodp> <p class="poetry">until you return to the ground,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for out of it you were taken;p> <p class="poetry">for you are dust, and to dust you will return.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while<n id="1" /> Lot was sitting in the city&#8217;s gateway.<n id="2" /> When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.p>

Jacob became furious<n id="1" /> with Rachel and exclaimed, &#8220;Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?&#8221;<n id="2" />