As for their enemies, ¹  they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress ²  and suffering.

I desperately long to know ¹  your regulations at all times.

The Lord has broken the club of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.

It is trampled underfoot by the feet of the oppressed, by the soles of the poor.”

The splendid crown of Ephraim’s drunkards will be trampled underfoot.

“Moab will be crushed. Her children will cry out in distress. ¹ 

You saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands; it smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold into pieces. The great God has made known to the king what will occur in the future. ¹  The dream is certain, and its interpretation is reliable.”

You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.

the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons ¹  and everyone else. ² 

Gideon said, “Since you will not help, ¹  after the Lord hands Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will thresh ²  your skin ³  with ⁴  desert thorns and briers.”

My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, ¹  as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” ² 

so that your feet may stomp ¹  in their blood, and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies’ corpses.” ² 

before the silver cord is removed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the well, ¹  or the water wheel ²  is broken at the cistern –

I will break Assyria ¹  in my land, I will trample them ²  underfoot on my hills. Their yoke will be removed from my people, the burden will be lifted from their shoulders. ³ 

For the sovereign master, ¹  the Lord who commands armies, has planned a day of panic, defeat, and confusion. ²  In the Valley of Vision ³  people shout ⁴  and cry out to the hill. ⁵ 

Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!

Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! ¹  But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; ²  you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. ³ 

You ¹  devour my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot ²  – like meat in a kettle.

You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, ¹  but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; ²  you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink. ³ 

He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.