⁹ ‘If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine,^(A) we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.’

¹⁰ “But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt;^(B) so they turned away from them and did not destroy them. ¹¹ See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession^(C) you gave us as an inheritance.