<t /><p class="poetry">Bel<n id="1" /> kneels down,p> <p class="poetry">Nebo<n id="2" /> bends low.p> <p class="poetry">Their images weigh down animals and beasts.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Next in command<n id="1" /> was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines assembled at Lehi,<n id="2" /> where there happened to be an area of a field that was full of lentils, the army retreated before the Philistines.

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1489; (<i>Beti>)p> <p class="poetry">She weeps bitterly at night;p> <p class="poetry">tears stream down her cheeks.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">She has no one to comfort herp> <p class="poetry">among all her lovers.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">All her friends have betrayed her;p> <p class="poetry">they have become her enemies.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;This is what you must say to them, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die<n id="1" /> by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

<p class="poetry">This is how the once-proud city will end up<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the city that was so secure.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">She thought to herself,<n id="3" /> &#8220;I am unique! No one can compare to me!&#8221;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live!p> <p class="poetry">Everyone who passes by her taunts her<n id="5" /> and shakes his fist.<n id="6" />p>