<p class="poetry">You who are far away, listen to what I have done!p> <p class="poetry">You who are close by, recognize my strength!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned<n id="1" /> against the <sc>Lordsc>. And know that your sin will find you out.

<p class="poetry">Realize that<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> shows the godly special favor;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> responds<n id="3" /> when I cry out to him.p>

<p class="poetry">He says,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Stop your striving and recognize<n id="2" /> that I am God!p> <p class="poetry">I will be exalted<n id="3" /> over<n id="4" /> the nations! I will be exalted over<n id="5" /> the earth!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Saul said, &#8220;All you leaders of the army come here. Find out<n id="1" /> how this sin occurred today.

Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the <sc>Lordsc> so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the <sc>Lordsc> by asking for a king for yourselves.&#8221;p>

Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely<n id="1" /> where he is<n id="2" /> and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information.<n id="1" /> Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him<n id="2" /> among all the thousands of Judah.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Go up and down<n id="2" /> through the streets of Jerusalem.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Look around and see for yourselves.p> <p class="poetry">Search through its public squares.p> <p class="poetry">See if any of you can find a single personp> <p class="poetry">who deals honestly and tries to be truthful.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">If you can,<n id="5" /> then I will not punish this city.<n id="6" />p>