<p class="poetry">I want<n id="1" /> to climb the palm tree,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and take hold of its fruit stalks.p> <p class="poetry">May your breasts be like the clusters of grapes,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and may the fragrance of your breath be like apricots!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Syria from the east,p> <p class="poetry">and the Philistines from the west,p> <p class="poetry">they gobbled up Israelite territory.<n id="1" />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="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will have no place to go, except to kneel with the prisoners,p> <p class="poetry">or to fall among those who have been killed.<n id="1" />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="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s day of judgment<n id="1" /> is coming;p> <p class="poetry">it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">destroying<n id="3" /> the earth<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and annihilating its sinners.p>

<p class="poetry">So I will shake the heavens,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the earth will shake loose from its foundation,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because of the fury of the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies,p> <p class="poetry">in the day he vents his raging anger.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Look, the name<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> comes from a distant placep> <p class="poetry">in raging anger and awesome splendor.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He speaks angrilyp> <p class="poetry">and his word is like destructive fire.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> will give a mighty shout<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and intervene in power,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.p>

<p class="poetry">Because you rage against mep> <p class="poetry">and the uproar you create has reached my ears,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will put my hook in your nose,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and my bridle between your lips,p> <p class="poetry">and I will lead you backp> <p class="poetry">the way you came.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">So he poured out his fierce anger on them,p> <p class="poetry">along with the devastation<n id="1" /> of war.p> <p class="poetry">Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">it burned against them, but they did notice.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I have stomped grapes in the winepress all by myself;p> <p class="poetry">no one from the nations joined me.p> <p class="poetry">I stomped on them<n id="1" /> in my anger;p> <p class="poetry">I trampled them down in my rage.p> <p class="poetry">Their juice splashed on my garments,p> <p class="poetry">and stained<n id="2" /> all my clothes.p>

<p class="poetry">They say, &#8216;Keep to yourself!p> <p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t get near me, for I am holier than you!&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">These people are like smoke in my nostrils,p> <p class="poetry">like a fire that keeps burning all day long.p>

<p class="poetry">For look, the <sc>Lordsc> comes with fire,p> <p class="poetry">his chariots come like a windstorm,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to reveal his raging anger,p> <p class="poetry">his battle cry, and his flaming arrows.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">you say, &#8216;I have not done anything wrong,p> <p class="poetry">so the <sc>Lordsc> cannot really be angry with me any more.&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">But, watch out!<n id="1" /> I will bring down judgment on youp> <p class="poetry">because you say, &#8216;I have not committed any sin.&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">So put on sackcloth!p> <p class="poetry">Mourn and wail, saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;The fierce anger of the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">has not turned away from us!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">I said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;<sc>Lordsc>, you know how I suffer.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Take thought of me and care for me.p> <p class="poetry">Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me.p> <p class="poetry">Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me.p> <p class="poetry">Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.p>

<p class="poetry">The anger of the <sc>Lordsc> will not turn backp> <p class="poetry">until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">In days to come<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you people will come to understand this clearly.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is like a lion who has left his lair.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">So their lands will certainly<n id="2" /> be laid wastep> <p class="poetry">by the warfare of the oppressive nation<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and by the fierce anger of the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">The anger of the <sc>Lordsc> will not turn backp> <p class="poetry">until he has fully carried out his intended purposes.p> <p class="poetry">In days to come you will come to understand this.<n id="1" />p>

&#8216;I will certainly regather my people from all the countries where I will have exiled<n id="1" /> them in my anger, fury, and great wrath. I will bring them back to this place and allow them to live here in safety.

So my anger and my wrath were poured out and burned like a fire through the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. That is why they have become the desolate ruins that they are today.&#8217;p>