he pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

他使君王蒙羞被辱，使他们在荒废无路之地漂流。

他使贵族蒙羞受辱，使他们迷失在荒凉无路之地；

他使贵族蒙羞受辱，使他们迷失在荒凉无路之地；

祂使贵族蒙羞受辱，漂流在荒芜之地。

他使权贵受羞辱，使他们在荒废无路的地方飘流。

神使权贵受到藐视，使他们在无路可走的荒凉之地漂流。

他使君王蒙羞被辱，使他們在荒廢無路之地漂流。

他使貴族蒙羞受辱，使他們迷失在荒涼無路之地；

他使貴族蒙羞受辱，使他們迷失在荒涼無路之地；

祂使貴族蒙羞受辱，漂流在荒蕪之地。

他使權貴受羞辱，使他們在荒廢無路的地方飄流。

他向王子身上傾倒下侮辱，使他在荒蕪沒路之地漂流無定。

神使權貴受到藐視，使他們在無路可走的荒涼之地漂流。

彼加凌辱於君王、使其流離於野、無路可循兮、

民牧則黜其位、流亡於野、在人跡不至之所兮、

主乃使君王極被藐視、在無路之曠野、流徙飄蕩、

憎彼侯王。黜之遐荒。遐荒無路。四顧茫茫。寖削寖弱。淪胥以亡。

he who pours contempt on nobles made them wander in a trackless waste.

The God who looks down on proud nobles made them wander in a desert where no one lives.

he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

the Lord pours contempt on their princes, causing them to wander in trackless wastelands.

He pours contempt upon noblemen And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

He pours contempt on princes, And causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;

He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

He pours contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness,[ where there is] no way.

He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

He deprives the world’s leaders of reason, and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the strong.

When they had brought the kings to him, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the military commanders who had accompanied him,“ Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.Joshua said to them,“ Do not be afraid or discouraged. Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all the enemies you fight.”After this, Joshua struck them down and executed them. He hung their bodies on five trees and they were there until evening.

Some wandered in the desolate wilderness, finding no way to a city where they could live.

The Nile will swarm with frogs; they will come up and go into your palace, into your bedroom and on your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.

They asked,“ What guilt offering should we send back to him?” And they answered,“ Five gold tumors and five gold mice corresponding to the number of Philistine rulers, since there was one plague for both you and your rulers.

He beat back his foes; he gave them lasting disgrace.

Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud, for the LORD has spoken.Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. You wait for light, but he brings darkest gloom and makes total darkness.But if you will not listen, my innermost being will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, for the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.Say to the king and the queen mother: Take a humble seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.

Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, greatness, glory, and majesty to your predecessor Nebuchadnezzar.Because of the greatness he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages were terrified and fearful of him. He killed anyone he wanted and kept alive anyone he wanted; he exalted anyone he wanted and humbled anyone he wanted.But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant, he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.He was driven away from people, his mind was like an animal’s, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky until he acknowledged that the Most High God is ruler over human kingdoms and sets anyone he wants over them.“ But you his successor, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of the heavens. The vessels from his house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them, you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand. But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in his hand and who controls the whole course of your life.Therefore, he sent the hand, and this writing was inscribed.“ This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN.This is the interpretation of the message:‘ Mene’ means that God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.‘ Tekel’ means that you have been weighed on the balance and found deficient.‘ Peres’ means that your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”Then Belshazzar gave an order, and they clothed Daniel in purple, placed a gold chain around his neck, and issued a proclamation concerning him that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,

While he was sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife, Jael, took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She hammered the peg into his temple and drove it into the ground, and he died.

At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king’s palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand that was writing,his face turned pale, and his thoughts so terrified him that he soiled himself and his knees knocked together.

But when they went out to bury her, they did not find anything but the skull, the feet, and the hands.So they went back and told him, and he said,“ This fulfills the LORD’s word that he spoke through his servant Elijah the Tishbite:‘ In the plot of land at Jezreel, the dogs will eat Jezebel’s flesh.Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel so that no one will be able to say: This is Jezebel.’”

When Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.Adoni-bezek said,“ Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

He found him in a desolate land, in a barren, howling wilderness; he surrounded him, cared for him, and protected him as the pupil of his eye.

After they had moved it, the LORD’s hand was against the city of Gath, causing a great panic. He afflicted the people of the city, from the youngest to the oldest, with an outbreak of tumors.

At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of military commanders, the flesh of the mighty, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”

Tell him,‘ This is what the LORD says: Have you murdered and also taken possession?’ Then tell him,‘ This is what the LORD says: In the place where the dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, the dogs will also lick up your blood!’”

And they did this. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and when he struck the dust of the land, gnats were on people and animals. All the dust of the land became gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

At that moment the message against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people. He ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

And the LORD did this. Thick swarms of flies went into Pharaoh’s palace and his officials’ houses. Throughout Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are the honored ones of the earth?The LORD of Armies planned it, to desecrate all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the honored ones of the earth.