<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see<n id="1" /> and subverts the words of the righteous.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The angelic messenger<n id="1" /> who had been speaking with me then returned and woke me, as a person is wakened from sleep.

You must not pervert justice or show favor. Do not take a bribe, for bribes blind the eyes of the wise and distort<n id="1" /> the words of the righteous.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">There was another battle with the Philistines in which Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite,<n id="1" /> whose spear had a shaft as big as the crossbeam of a weaver&#8217;s loom.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Beware! An army<n id="1" /> is coming from a land in the north.p> <p class="poetry">A mighty nation is stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all<n id="1" /> says,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Disaster will soon come on one nation after another.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">A mighty storm of military destruction<n id="3" /> is rising upp> <p class="poetry">from the distant parts of the earth.&#8217;p>