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

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 on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

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

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms the powerful.

When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him,“ Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came up and put their feet on their necks.Then Joshua said to them,“ Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! Be strong and brave, for the LORD will do the same thing to all your enemies you fight.Then Joshua executed them and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.

They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

The Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will come up and go into your house, in your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading troughs.

They inquired,“ What is the guilt offering that we should send to him?” They replied,“ The Philistine leaders number five. So send five gold sores and five gold mice, for it is the same plague that has afflicted both you and your leaders.

He drove his enemies back; he made them a permanent target for insults.

Then I said to the people of Judah,“ Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the LORD has spoken.Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.But if you will not pay attention to this warning, I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears because you, the LORD’s flock, will be carried into exile.”The LORD told me,“ Tell the king and the queen mother,‘ Surrender your thrones, for your glorious crowns will be removed from your heads.

As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.Due to the greatness that he bestowed on him, all peoples, nations, and language groups were trembling with fear before him. He killed whom he wished, he spared whom he wished, he exalted whom he wished, and he brought low whom he wished.And when his mind became arrogant and his spirit filled with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and his honor was removed from him.He was driven from human society, his mind was changed to that of an animal, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until he came to understand that the most high God rules over human kingdoms, and he appoints over them whomever he wishes.“ But you, his son Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, although you knew all this.Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone– gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.“ This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEQEL, and PHARSIN.This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene– God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.As for teqel– you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking.As for peres– your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom.And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.

Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground while he was asleep from exhaustion, and he died.

At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.Then all the color drained from the king’s face and he became alarmed. The joints of his hips gave way, and his knees began knocking together.

But when they went to bury her, they found nothing left but the skull, feet, and palms of the hands.When they went back and told him, he said,“ The LORD’s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned,‘ In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel’s flesh.Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’”

When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes.Adoni-Bezek said,“ Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up food scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

The LORD found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

But after it had been moved the LORD attacked that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city with sores.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.

to eat your fill of the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of powerful people, the flesh of horses and those who ride them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slave, and small and great!”

Say to him,‘ This is what the LORD says:“ Haven’t you committed murder and taken possession of the property of the deceased?”’ Then say to him,‘ This is what the LORD says:“ In the spot where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood they will also lick up your blood– yes, yours!”’”

They did so; Aaron extended his hand with his staff, he struck the dust of the ground, and it became gnats on people and on animals. All the dust of the ground became gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.

Now in that very moment this pronouncement about Nebuchadnezzar came true. He was driven from human society, he ate grass like oxen, and his body became damp with the dew of the sky, until his hair became long like an eagle’s feathers, and his nails like a bird’s claws.

The LORD did so; a thick swarm of flies came into Pharaoh’s house and into the houses of his servants, and throughout the whole land of Egypt the land was ruined because of the swarms of flies.

Who planned this for royal Tyre, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the dignitaries of the earth?The LORD who commands armies planned it– to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.