<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, my God, you have accomplished many things;p> <p class="poetry">you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No one can thwart you!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I want to declare them and talk about them,p> <p class="poetry">but they are too numerous to recount!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The king got up in the night and said to his advisers,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, &#8216;When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.&#8217;&#8221;