<p class="poetry">The people I call my own<n id="1" /> have turned on mep> <p class="poetry">like a lion<n id="2" /> in the forest.p> <p class="poetry">They have roared defiantly<n id="3" /> at me.p> <p class="poetry">So I will treat them as though I hate them.<n id="4" />p>

I, the <sc>Lordsc>, say:<n id="1" /> &#8216;That is how I will deal with this city and its citizens. I will make it like Topheth.

<p class="poetry">In a far-off land the <sc>Lordsc> will manifest himself to them.p> <p class="poetry">He will say to them, &#8216;I have loved you with an everlasting love.p> <p class="poetry">That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet in days to comep> <p class="poetry">I will reverse Ammon&#8217;s ill fortune.&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />p>

Say, &#8216;I am an object lesson for you. Just as I have done, it will be done to them; they will go into exile and captivity.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore, I will certainly cut<n id="1" /> you into pieces at the hands of the prophets;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will certainly kill you<n id="3" /> in fulfillment of my oracles of judgment;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">for<n id="5" /> my judgment<n id="6" /> will come forth like the light of the dawn.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">But the more I summoned<n id="1" /> them,p> <p class="poetry">the farther they departed from me.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They sacrificed to the Baal idolsp> <p class="poetry">and burned incense to images.p>

<p class="poetry">The Babylonian tyrant<n id="1" /> pulls them all up with a fishhook;p> <p class="poetry">he hauls them in with his throw net.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">When he catches<n id="3" /> them in his dragnet,p> <p class="poetry">he is very happy.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Because of his success<n id="1" /> he offers sacrifices to his throw netp> <p class="poetry">and burns incense to his dragnet;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for because of them he has plenty of food,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and more than enough to eat.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Will he then<n id="1" /> continue to fill and empty his throw net?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Will he always<n id="3" /> destroy<n id="4" /> nations and spare none?<n id="5" />p>

This is why the sky<n id="1" /> has held back its dew and the earth its produce.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;It then came about that just as I<n id="1" /> cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,&#8217; the <sc>Lordsc> <sc>Lord who rules over allsc> had said.

The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in all the territory<n id="1" /> of Egypt. It was very severe;<n id="2" /> there had been no locusts like them before, nor will there be such ever again.<n id="3" />

After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.p>

When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won&#8217;t eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for<n id="1" /> this is the time when you can find him!&#8221;p>

you are granted wisdom and discernment.<n id="1" /> Furthermore I am giving you riches, wealth, and honor surpassing that of any king before or after you.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For this reason these days are known as <i>Purimi>, after the name of <i>puri>.

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.<n id="1" /> It was so.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place<n id="1" /> and let dry ground appear.&#8221;<n id="2" /> It was so.

<p class="bodytext">God said, &#8220;Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.&#8221;<n id="1" /> It was so.