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The lion tears in pieces, enough for his cubs, and strangles for his lionesses, and has filled his holes with prey, even his lairs with torn prey.

For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation which is going into the broad spaces of the land, to possess dwellings not his own.

He is terrible and fearful; his judgment and his glory goes forth from himself.

His horses also are swifter than leopards and are fiercer than the evening wolves. And their horsemen spread themselves; yea, their horsemen come from afar; they shall fly as the eagle hurrying to eat.

Then he sweeps on like a wind; and he passes on and is guilty, crediting this power of his to his god.

He takes up all of him with the hook; he drags him with his net and gathers him with his seine. On account of this he rejoices and exults.

So he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his seine; because by them his portion is fat, and his food rich.

Shall he therefore empty his net, and shall he not spare to continually slay nations?

Behold, the soul of him is puffed up and is not upright; but the just shall live by his faith.

And also, wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he dwells not at home ; who widens his soul like Sheol. And he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all the nations to himself, and collects all the peoples to himself.

Shall not all of these lift up a parable against him, and a mocking riddle to him, and say, Woe to him who increases what is not his! Until when, then, shall he load the pledges on himself?

Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be snatched from the hand of evil!

Woe to him who causes his friend to drink, joining with your bottle, and also making him drunk, so as to look upon their nakedness!

What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make mute idols?

But Jehovah is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

God comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His majesty covers the heavens, and His praise fills the earth.

And His brightness is as the light; rays from His hand are His, and there was a covering of His strength.

A plague goes before Him, and lightning went forth at His feet.

He stood and measured the earth; He looked and shook nations; and the ancient mountains were shattered; the eternal hills bowed down. The goings of eternity are His.

You pierced the head of his warriors with his shafts. They rush to scatter me; their exultation is to devour the humble in a secret place.