Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. ¹  When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, “Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?” ² 

Listen! News is coming even now. ¹  The rumble of a great army is heard approaching ²  from a land in the north. ³  It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.

ז (Zayin) The Lord ¹  rejected ²  his altar and abhorred his temple. ³  He handed over to the enemy ⁴  her palace walls; the enemy ⁵  shouted ⁶  in the Lord’s temple as if it were a feast day. ⁷ 

The noisy city is full of raucous sounds; the town is filled with revelry. ¹  Your slain were not cut down by the sword; they did not die in battle. ² 

Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? ¹ 

Why ²  do the nations rebel? ³  Why ⁴  are the countries ⁵  devising ⁶  plots that will fail? ⁷ 

Pay attention to me and answer me! I am so upset ¹  and distressed, ²  I am beside myself, ³ 

(She is loud and rebellious, she ¹  does not remain ²  at home –

The woman called Folly ¹  is brash, ²  she is naive ³  and does not know ⁴  anything. ⁵ 

When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was going on.

All the people were seeing ¹  the thundering and the lightning, and heard ²  the sound of the horn, and saw ³  the mountain smoking – and when ⁴  the people saw it they trembled with fear ⁵  and kept their distance. ⁶ 

So I will set Moab on fire, ¹  and it will consume Kerioth’s ²  fortresses. Moab will perish ³  in the heat of battle ⁴  amid war cries and the blaring ⁵  of the ram’s horn. ⁶ 

There is ¹  the roaring of the lion ²  and the growling ³  of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken. ⁴ 

My harp is used for ¹  mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

Our God approaches and is not silent; ¹  consuming fire goes ahead of him and all around him a storm rages. ² 

Do not boast ¹  about tomorrow; ²  for you do not know ³  what a day may bring forth.

Cries of anguish will come from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Babylonians.

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; ¹  the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens ²  are opened up ³  and the foundations of the earth shake.

When they called out to the Danites, the Danites ¹  turned around and said to Micah, “Why have you gathered together?”