would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me.”
Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it. Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there.
For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.
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