<p class="poetry">Make the path for your feet<n id="1" /> level,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">so that<n id="3" /> all your ways may be established.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">They will lift you up in their hands,p> <p class="poetry">so you will not slip and fall on a stone.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">May he not allow your foot to slip!p> <p class="poetry">May your protector<n id="1" /> not sleep!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My child, do not go down<n id="1" /> their way,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">withhold yourself<n id="3" /> from their path;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">for the <sc>Lordsc> will be<n id="1" /> the source of your confidence,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and he will guard your foot<n id="3" /> from being caught in a trap.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not turn<n id="1" /> to the right or to the left;p> <p class="poetry">turn yourself<n id="2" /> away from evil.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t set foot too frequently<n id="1" /> in your neighbor&#8217;s house,p> <p class="poetry">lest he become weary<n id="2" /> of you and hate you.p>

<p class="poetry">so that your feet may stomp<n id="1" /> in their blood,p> <p class="poetry">and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies&#8217; corpses.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils &#8211; from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out<n id="1" /> nor have your sandals<n id="2" /> deteriorated.

<p class="poetry">Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear outp> <p class="poetry">and your throats become dry.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">But you say, &#8216;It is useless for you to try and stop mep> <p class="poetry">because I love those foreign gods<n id="2" /> and want to pursue them!&#8217;p>

Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the <sc>Lordsc> will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

The commander of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s army answered Joshua, &#8220;Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy.&#8221; Joshua did so.p>

That day Moses made this solemn promise:<n id="1" /> &#8216;Surely the land on which you walked<n id="2" /> will belong to you and your descendants permanently,<n id="3" /> for you remained loyal to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.&#8217;

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Be careful what you do<n id="2" /> when you go to the temple<n id="3" /> of God;p> <p class="poetry">draw near to listen<n id="4" /> rather than to offer a sacrifice<n id="5" /> like fools,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.p>

<p class="poetry">You must<n id="1" /> observe the Sabbath<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">rather than doing anything you please on my holy day.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">You must look forward to the Sabbath<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and treat the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s holy day with respect.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">You must treat it with respect by refraining from your normal activities,p> <p class="poetry">and by refraining from your selfish pursuits and from making business deals.<n id="6" />p>

All the women who are left in the royal palace of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. They will taunt you saying,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Your trusted friends misled you;p> <p class="poetry">they have gotten the best of you.p> <p class="poetry">Now that your feet are stuck in the mud,p> <p class="poetry">they have turned their backs on you.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>