<p class="poetry">They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s right hand conquers,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I say to the <sc>Lordsc>, &#8220;You are my God.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, pay attention to my plea for mercy!p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, I cry out to you. Come quickly to me!p> <p class="poetry">Pay attention to me when I cry out to you!p>

<p class="poetry">When<n id="1" /> he speaks graciously,<n id="2" /> do not believe him,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">for there are seven<n id="4" /> abominations<n id="5" /> within him.p>

<p class="poetry">If someone blesses<n id="1" /> his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">it will be counted as a curse to him.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Just as dreams come when there are many cares,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so<n id="2" /> the rash vow<n id="3" /> of a fool occurs<n id="4" /> when there are many words.p>

<p class="poetry">For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns<n id="1" /> under a cooking pot,p> <p class="poetry">so is the laughter of the fool.p> <p class="poetry">This kind of folly<n id="2" /> also is useless.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved about Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Listen!<n id="1" /> My lover is approaching!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Look!<n id="3" /> Here he comes,p> <p class="poetry">leaping over the mountains,p> <p class="poetry">bounding over the hills!p>

<p class="poetry">The pomegranates have appeared<n id="1" /> in the land,p> <p class="poetry">the time for pruning and singing<n id="2" /> has come;p> <p class="poetry">the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">You complacent<n id="1" /> women,p> <p class="poetry">get up and listen to me!p> <p class="poetry">You carefree<n id="2" /> daughters,p> <p class="poetry">pay attention to what I say!p>

<p class="poetry">A voice cries out,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;In the wilderness clear a way for the <sc>Lordsc>;p> <p class="poetry">construct in the desert a road for our God.p>

<p class="poetry">Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him;p> <p class="poetry">they raise their voices in triumph.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They have laid his land waste;p> <p class="poetry">his cities have been burned down and deserted.<n id="2" />p>

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land<n id="1" /> through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I appointed prophets as watchmen to warn you,<n id="2" /> saying:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Pay attention to the warning sound of the trumpet!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">But they said, &#8220;We will not pay attention!&#8221;p>

<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>

<t /><p class="poetry">People of Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> go up to Lebanon and cry out in mourning.p> <p class="poetry">Go to the land of Bashan and cry out loudly.p> <p class="poetry">Cry out in mourning from the mountains of Moab.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For your allies<n id="3" /> have all been defeated.p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to the cries of anguish of the leaders.p> <p class="poetry">Listen to the wails of the shepherds of the flocks.p> <p class="poetry">They are wailing because the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">is about to destroy their lands.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Yes,<n id="1" /> here is what he says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;You hear cries of panic and of terror;p> <p class="poetry">there is no peace in sight.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Out of those places you will hear songs of thanksgiving<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and the sounds of laughter and merriment.p> <p class="poetry">I will increase their number and they will not dwindle away.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will bring them honor and they will no longer be despised.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must not disobey the <sc>Lordsc> your God by saying, &#8216;We will not stay in this land.&#8217;