For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel.
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us
Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumo
But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion a