<p class="bodytext">The son<n id="1" /> of Ethan:p> <p class="bodytext">Azariah.p>

<p class="poetry">Justice must flow like torrents of water,p> <p class="poetry">righteous actions<n id="1" /> like a stream that never dries up.p>

son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei,

<p class="poetry">You broke open the spring and the stream;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Keen insight<n id="1" /> wins<n id="2" /> favor,p> <p class="poetry">but the conduct<n id="3" /> of the unfaithful is harsh.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then he looked on the Kenites and uttered this oracle:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Your dwelling place seems strong,p> <p class="poetry">and your nest<n id="1" /> is set on a rocky cliff.p>

<p class="bodytext">Serving beside them were their fellow Levites, the descendants of Merari, led by<n id="1" /> Ethan, son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,

So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; one of his relatives, Asaph son of Berechiah; one of the descendants of Merari,<n id="1" /> Ethan son of Kushaiah;

and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water,<n id="1" /> to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown.<n id="2" /> There at the wadi they are to break the heifer&#8217;s neck.

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> says,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Listen,<n id="2" /> nation of Israel!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I am about to bring a nation from far away to attack you.p> <p class="poetry">It will be a nation that was founded long agop> <p class="poetry">and has lasted for a long time.p> <p class="poetry">It will be a nation whose language you will not know.p> <p class="poetry">Its people will speak words that you will not be able to understand.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">So too I will chase the Edomites off their land.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">There is no<n id="6" /> ruler<n id="7" /> who can stand up against me.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordanp> <p class="poetry">scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it.p> <p class="poetry">So too I will chase the Babylonians off of their land.p> <p class="poetry">Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose.p> <p class="poetry">For there is no one like me.p> <p class="poetry">There is no one who can call me to account.p> <p class="poetry">There is no ruler that can stand up against me.p>