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Ask a QuestionThose who conduct business, do so only to have it plundered; the more they adorn their cities, their houses and possessions, and their persons,
if they repent with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies, who took them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name;
Though they spread out their hands in the midst of it, as swimmers spread out their hands to swim, their pride will be laid low despite the struggle of their hands.
You gave up their wives for booty and their daughters to captivity, and all their booty to be divided among your beloved children who burned with zeal for you and abhorred the pollution of their blood and called on you for help. O God, my God, hear me also, a widow.
For wisdom is a kindly spirit, but will not free blasphemers from the guilt of their words; because God is witness of their inmost feelings, and a true observer of their hearts, and a hearer of their tongues.
The enrollment of the clans of the Merarites, by their clans and their ancestral houses,
Do not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
You shall never promote their welfare or their prosperity as long as you live.
they return no more to their houses, nor do their places know them any more.
Their strength is consumed by hunger, and calamity is ready for their stumbling.
"They knew no quiet in their bellies; in their greed they let nothing escape.
They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.
to spare their souls from the Pit, their lives from traversing the River.
Their souls draw near the Pit, and their lives to those who bring death.
They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues range over the earth.
But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
He struck their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.
He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the first issue of all their strength.