<p class="bodytext">In response to all this<n id="1" /> I said, &#8220;Ah, Lord <sc>Godsc>,<n id="2" /> you have surely allowed<n id="3" /> the people of Judah and Jerusalem<n id="4" /> to be deceived by those who say, &#8216;You will be safe!&#8217;<n id="5" /> But in fact a sword is already at our throats.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their tongues are like deadly arrows.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They are always telling lies.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths.p> <p class="poetry">But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> answered,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;If you have raced on foot against men and they have worn you out,p> <p class="poetry">how will you be able to compete with horses?p> <p class="poetry">And if you feel secure only<n id="2" /> in safe and open country,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">how will you manage in the thick undergrowth along the Jordan River?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> cried out,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Who in the world<n id="2" /> will have pity on you, Jerusalem?p> <p class="poetry">Who will grieve over you?p> <p class="poetry">Who will stop long enough<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">to inquire about how you are doing?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They continually say<n id="1" /> to those who reject what the <sc>Lordsc> has said,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Things will go well for you!&#8217;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">They say to all those who follow the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Nothing bad will happen to you!&#8217;p>

So if a prophet prophesied<n id="1" /> peace and prosperity, it was only known that the <sc>Lordsc> truly sent him when what he prophesied came true.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely<n id="1" /> in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods.<n id="2" />

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them.<n id="1" /> I will establish them,<n id="2" /> increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

He said to me, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid, you who are valued.<n id="1" /> Peace be to you! Be strong! Be really strong!&#8221; When he spoke to me, I was strengthened. I said, &#8220;Sir, you may speak now,<n id="2" /> for you have given me strength.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">All your allies<n id="1" /> will force<n id="2" /> you from your homeland!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Your treaty partners<n id="4" /> will deceive you and overpower you.p> <p class="poetry">Your trusted friends<n id="5" /> will set an ambush<n id="6" /> for<n id="7" /> youp> <p class="poetry">that will take you by surprise!<n id="8" />p>

<p class="poetry">He will give us peace.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the Assyrians try to invade our landp> <p class="poetry">and attempt to set foot in our fortresses,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">we will send<n id="3" /> against them seven<n id="4" /> shepherd-rulers,<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">make that eight commanders.<n id="6" />p>

&#8216;The future splendor of this temple will be greater than that of former times,&#8217;<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all declares, &#8216;and in this place I will give peace.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts.<n id="1" />

&#8220;My covenant with him was designed to bring life and peace. I gave its statutes to him to fill him with awe, and he indeed revered me and stood in awe before me.

He taught what was true;<n id="1" /> sinful words were not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and integrity, and he turned many people away from sin.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Everything is fine,&#8221;<n id="1" /> the man in charge of Joseph&#8217;s household told them. &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks.<n id="2" /> I had your money.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Then he brought Simeon out to them.p>

<p class="bodytext">But Joseph said, &#8220;Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of<n id="1" /> you may go back<n id="2" /> to your father in peace.&#8221;p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">So Moses went back<n id="2" /> to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, &#8220;Let me go, so that I may return<n id="3" /> to my relatives<n id="4" /> in Egypt and see<n id="5" /> if they are still alive.&#8221; Jethro said to Moses, &#8220;Go in peace.&#8221;

When such a person<n id="1" /> hears the words of this oath he secretly<n id="2" /> blesses himself<n id="3" /> and says, &#8220;I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.&#8221;<n id="4" /> This will destroy<n id="5" /> the watered ground with the parched.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor<n id="1" /> and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty.<n id="2" />