<p class="poetry">Let the sea and everything in it shout,p> <p class="poetry">along with the world and those who live in it!p>

<p class="poetry">Let the sky rejoice, and the earth be happy!p> <p class="poetry">Let the sea and everything in it shout!p>

<p class="poetry">The threshing floors are full of grain;p> <p class="poetry">the vats overflow with fresh wine and olive oil.p>

<p class="poetry">The time is coming when Jacob will take root;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Israel will blossom and grow branches.p> <p class="poetry">The produce<n id="2" /> will fill the surface of the world.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Sing to the <sc>Lordsc> a brand new song!p> <p class="poetry">Praise him<n id="1" /> from the horizon of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">you who go down to the sea, and everything that lives in it,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you coastlands<n id="3" /> and those who live there!p>

For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it.<n id="1" />

God blessed them<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

<p class="poetry">Wild animals will rest there,p> <p class="poetry">the ruined<n id="1" /> houses will be full of hyenas.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Ostriches will live there,p> <p class="poetry">wild goats will skip among the ruins.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Prepare to execute<n id="1" /> his sonsp> <p class="poetry">for the sins their ancestors have committed.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They must not rise up and take possession of the earth,p> <p class="poetry">or fill the surface of the world with cities.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">He said to them, &#8220;Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!&#8221; So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

<p class="poetry">He and his people with him,p> <p class="poetry">the most terrifying of the nations,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will be brought there to destroy the land.p> <p class="poetry">They will draw their swords against Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">and fill the land with corpses.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all will guard them, and they will prevail and overcome with sling stones. Then they will drink, and will become noisy like drunkards,<n id="1" /> full like the sacrificial basin or like the corners of the altar.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">God blessed<n id="1" /> them and said<n id="2" /> to them, &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it!<n id="3" /> Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.&#8221;<n id="4" />

If you do not release<n id="1" /> my people, then I am going to send<n id="2" /> swarms of flies<n id="3" /> on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.<n id="4" />

They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as<n id="1" /> neither<n id="2" /> your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been<n id="3" /> in the land until this day!&#8217;&#8221; Then Moses<n id="4" /> turned and went out from Pharaoh.p>

I will do so because these people<n id="1" /> have rejected me and have defiled<n id="2" /> this place. They have offered sacrifices in it to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors<n id="3" /> nor the kings of Judah knew anything about. They have filled it with the blood of innocent children.<n id="4" />