<p class="poetry">A tempest blows out from its chamber,p> <p class="poetry">icy cold from the driving winds.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Their swords will pierce<n id="1" /> their own hearts,p> <p class="poetry">and their bows will be broken.p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to my appeal for mercy!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Deliver me, as you promised.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But there will be delight<n id="1" /> for those who convict<n id="2" /> the guilty,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and a pleasing blessing<n id="4" /> will come on them.p>

But as for you,<n id="1" /> you will go to your ancestors<n id="2" /> in peace and be buried at a good old age.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">But now the same thing<n id="1" /> comes to you,p> <p class="poetry">and you are discouraged;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">it strikes you,p> <p class="poetry">and you are terrified.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will come to your grave in a full age,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Oh that<n id="1" /> my request would be realized,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and that God would grant me what I long for!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Does God listen to his cryp> <p class="poetry">when distress overtakes him?p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But wisdom &#8211; where does it come from?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Where is the place of understanding?p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to my prayer!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Pay attention<n id="2" /> to my cry for help!p>

<p class="poetry">For wisdom will enter your heart,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and moral knowledge<n id="2" /> will be attractive<n id="3" /> to you.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

<p class="bodytext">David asked him, &#8220;Where are you coming from?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I have escaped from the camp of Israel.&#8221;

Micaiah replied, &#8220;Look, you will see in the day when you go into an inner room to hide.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">when I said, &#8216;To here you may come<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and no farther,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">here your proud waves will be confined&#8217;?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But he will join his ancestors;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will never again see the light of day.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will walk in<n id="1" /> the way of integrity.p> <p class="poetry">When will you come to me?p> <p class="poetry">I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not sit in judgment on<n id="1" /> your servant,p> <p class="poetry">for no one alive is innocent before you.<n id="2" />p>