Bear in mind today that I am not speaking ¹  to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments ²  of the Lord your God, which revealed ³  his greatness, strength, and power. ⁴ 

He even stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel. He lay there ¹  naked all that day and night. (For that reason it is asked, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”)

Throughout each and every province where the king’s edict and law were announced ¹  there was considerable ²  mourning among the Jews, along with fasting, weeping, and sorrow. ³  Sackcloth and ashes were characteristic ⁴  of many.

They will say, ¹  ‘Prepare to do battle ²  against it! Come on! Let’s attack it at noon!’ But later they will say, ³  ‘Oh, oh! Too bad! ⁴  The day is almost over and the shadows of evening are getting long.

“‘I passed by you and saw you kicking around helplessly in your blood. I said to you as you lay there in your blood, “Live!” I said to you as you lay there in your blood, “Live!” ¹ 

So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, ¹  and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die ²  by the sword.

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, ¹  you did not arrest me. ²  But this is your hour, ³  and that of the power ⁴  of darkness!”

Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to ¹  Sephar in the eastern hills.

They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

Joshua conquered the area between Kadesh Barnea and Gaza and the whole region of Goshen, all the way to Gibeon. ¹ 

I wipe them out and beat them to death; they cannot get up; they fall at my feet.

“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man ¹  when he cries for help in his distress. ² 

I beat them ¹  to death; ²  they fall at my feet. ³ 

He ¹  attacks ²  his friends; ³  he breaks his solemn promises to them. ⁴ 

He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

He spread out a cloud for a cover, ¹  and provided a fire to light up the night.

Deliver by your power ¹  and answer me, so that the ones you love may be safe. ² 

I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; ¹  I am shaken off like a locust.

I will lift my hands to ¹  your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

before he made the earth and its fields, ¹  or the beginning ²  of the dust of the world.