They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

Next to the border of Dan, from the east side to the west, Asher ¹  will have one portion.

Next to the border of Asher from the east side to the west, Naphtali will have one portion.

Next to the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon will have one portion.

From you, O Nineveh, ¹  one has marched forth who plots evil against the Lord, a wicked military strategist. ² 

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

After we had sailed across the open sea ¹  off Cilicia and Pamphylia, ²  we put in ³  at Myra ⁴  in Lycia. ⁵ 

If ¹  I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.

Consequently ¹  God sends on them a deluding influence ²  so that they will believe what is false.

And so ¹  all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned. ² 

This will happen to them because they have done what is shameful ¹  in Israel. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken lies while claiming my authority. ²  They have spoken words that I did not command them to speak. I know what they have done. I have been a witness to it,’ says the Lord.” ³ 

Make the work harder ¹  for the men so they will keep at it ²  and pay no attention to lying words!” ³ 

Of Joseph he said: May the Lord bless his land with the harvest produced by the sky, ¹  by the dew, and by the depths crouching beneath;

Of Gad he said: Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad. Like a lioness he will dwell; he will tear at an arm – indeed, a scalp. ¹ 

Then Saul sent the messengers back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed so I can kill him.”

So now, look, the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the Lord has decreed disaster for you.”

Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’” ¹ 

So now, look, the Lord has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the Lord has decreed disaster for you.”

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; ¹  a fire which has not been kindled ²  will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

The clods of the torrent valley ¹  are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.