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

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;

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 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 strips kings of understanding and leaves them wandering in a pathless wasteland.

He pours disgrace upon princes and disarms the strong.

When they brought them out, Joshua told the commanders of his army,“ Come and put your feet on the kings’ necks.” And they did as they were told.“ Don’t ever be afraid or discouraged,” Joshua told his men.“ Be strong and courageous, for the Lord is going to do this to all of your enemies.”Then Joshua killed each of the five kings and impaled them on five sharpened poles, where they hung until evening.

Some wandered in the wilderness, lost and homeless.

The Nile River will swarm with frogs. They will come up out of the river and into your palace, even into your bedroom and onto your bed! They will enter the houses of your officials and your people. They will even jump into your ovens and your kneading bowls.

“ What sort of guilt offering should we send?” they asked. And they were told,“ Since the plague has struck both you and your five rulers, make five gold tumors and five gold rats, just like those that have ravaged your land.

He routed his enemies and sent them to eternal shame.

Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant, for the Lord has spoken.Give glory to the Lord your God before it is too late. Acknowledge him before he brings darkness upon you, causing you to stumble and fall on the darkening mountains. For then, when you look for light, you will find only terrible darkness and gloom.And if you still refuse to listen, I will weep alone because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the Lord’s flock will be led away into exile.Say to the king and his mother,“ Come down from your thrones and sit in the dust, for your glorious crowns will soon be snatched from your heads.”

Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, majesty, glory, and honor to your predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar.He made him so great that people of all races and nations and languages trembled before him in fear. He killed those he wanted to kill and spared those he wanted to spare. He honored those he wanted to honor and disgraced those he wanted to disgrace.But when his heart and mind were puffed up with arrogance, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of a wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.“ You are his successor, O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself.For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone— gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!So God has sent this hand to write this message.“ This is the message that was written: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin.This is what these words mean: Mene means‘ numbered’— God has numbered the days of your reign and has brought it to an end.Tekel means‘ weighed’— you have been weighed on the balances and have not measured up.Parsin means‘ divided’— your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.

But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.

Suddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote,and his face turned pale with fright. His knees knocked together in fear and his legs gave way beneath him.

But when they went out to bury her, they found only her skull, her feet, and her hands.When they returned and told Jehu, he stated,“ This fulfills the message from the Lord, which he spoke through his servant Elijah from Tishbe:‘ At the plot of land in Jezreel, dogs will eat Jezebel’s body.Her remains will be scattered like dung on the plot of land in Jezreel, so that no one will be able to recognize her.’”

Adoni bezek escaped, but the Israelites soon captured him and cut off his thumbs and big toes.Adoni bezek said,“ I once had seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.” They took him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

He found them in a desert land, in an empty, howling wasteland. He surrounded them and watched over them; he guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.

But when the Ark arrived at Gath, the Lord’s heavy hand fell on its men, young and old; he struck them with a plague of tumors, and there was a great panic.

Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people’s worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died.

Come and eat the flesh of kings, generals, and strong warriors; of horses and their riders; and of all humanity, both free and slave, small and great.”

Give him this message:‘ This is what the Lord says: Wasn’t it enough that you killed Naboth? Must you rob him, too? Because you have done this, dogs will lick your blood at the very place where they licked the blood of Naboth!’”

So Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded them. When Aaron raised his hand and struck the ground with his staff, gnats infested the entire land, covering the Egyptians and their animals. All the dust in the land of Egypt turned into gnats.

“ That same hour the judgment was fulfilled, and Nebuchadnezzar was driven from human society. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven. He lived this way until his hair was as long as eagles’ feathers and his nails were like birds’ claws.

And the Lord did just as he had said. A thick swarm of flies filled Pharaoh’s palace and the houses of his officials. The whole land of Egypt was thrown into chaos by the flies.

Who has brought this disaster on Tyre, that great creator of kingdoms? Her traders were all princes, her merchants were nobles.The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has done it to destroy your pride and bring low all earth’s nobility.