8When poor people borrow money,the lenders force those people to give to them a piece of clothing for them to keep until he can pay back the money.But at the end of each day, instead of returning that garment as Yahweh had commanded them to,they lie down on that garment at the places where they worship their gods!They fine people,and with that money they buy wine and drink it in the temples of their gods!

9Long ago, to assist your ancestors, I got rid of the Amor people-group.They seemed to be as tall as cedar treesand as strong as oak trees,but I got rid of them completely,as easily as someone cuts off [MET] the branches of a tree and then digs out all its roots.

10I brought your ancestors out of Egypt,and then I led them through the desert for 40 years.And then I enabled them to conquer/possess the Amor area.

12With his ◄strong hand/great power► he led them out;his faithful love for us endures forever.

14He enabled the Israeli people to walk through it on dry land;his faithful love for us endures forever.

19He killed Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group;his faithful love for us endures forever.

4This was after they/we had defeated Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who lived in Heshbon city, and Og, the king of the Bashan region who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei towns.

7So now continue traveling. Go to the hilly area where the Amor people-group lives and to the nearby areas—to the Jordan River Valley, to the hilly region, to the western ◄foothills/hills at the bottom of the mountains►, to the desert area to the south, to the Mediterranean Seacoast, to all of Canaan land, to the Lebanon Mountains, and northeast to the great Euphrates River.

19… the hilly area where the Amor people-group live. We arrived at …

20I said to your ancestors, ‘We have now come to the hilly area where the Amor people-group live. This is part of the area that Yahweh our God, the one whom our ancestors worshiped, is giving to us.

27… Egypt just to allow the Amor people-group to destroy us.

31and in the desert. You saw how he brought you safely here, like a man would carry his son. [SIM]’

44Then the men of the Amor people-group who lived in that …

4Your neck is like [SIM] a tower made of ivory.Your eyes sparkle/shine like [MET] the pools in Heshbon city,near the Bath-Rabbim gate.Your nose is is as lovely as [SIM] the tower of Lebanonwhich faces toward Damascus.

6You whom I love, who have many charming features that attract me,are very beautiful and pleasant/pleasing.

13The mandrakes/love-apples are producing a fragrant odor,and we are surrounded by delightful pleasures [MET, EUP],new ones and old ones,pleasures that I have been saving to give to you, who love me.

6Keep me close to you,like [SIM] a seal on your heart,or like [SIM] a bracelet on your arm.Our love for each other is as powerful as death,it is as enduring as the grave.It is as though our love for each other bursts into flamesand burns like a hot fire.

10My chest was previously flat like [MET] a wall,but now my breasts are big like [SIM] towers.So the one who loves me is delighted with me.

14You who love me, come to me quickly;run to me [MET, EUP] as fast as [SIM] a gazelle or young deerruns across [MET] hills of spices.

26Amam, Shema, Molodah,

50Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

53Janim, Beth-Tappuah, Aphekah,

13Then they traveled to the north side of the Arnon River. That area is in the desert next to the land where the Amor people-group lived. The Arnon River is the boundary between Moab and where the Amor people-group lived.

21Then the Israelis sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. This was the message that they/we gave him:

25So the Israelis occupied all the cities and towns where the Amor people-group lived, and some of the Israelis began to live in them. They occupied Heshbon city and the nearby villages.

29… Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group.

30… those descendants of Amor, …

31… in the land where the Amor people-group lived.

32… that region and expelled the Amor people-group who lived there.

34… Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who ruled in Heshbon."

1Praise Yahweh!You who ◄do work for/serve► Yahweh,praise him!

11Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group,and Og, the king of Bashan region,and all the other kings in Canaan land.

19My fellow Israelis, praise Yahweh!You priests who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!

8In that same year, those people started to oppress the Israelis who lived in the Gilead region on the east side of the Jordan River. That was where the Amor people-group also lived. were They caused the Israelis who lived in that region to suffer for 18 years.

11Yahweh answered them, saying, "When the people of Egypt, and the Amor and Ammon and Philistia people-groups

14You have chosen those gods to be the ones that you worship. So call to them to help you. Allow them to rescue you when you have a lot of trouble!"

13Then God said to Abram, "I want you to know that your descendants will become foreigners living in a land that does not belong to them. They will become slaves of the owners of that land. The owners of the land will mistreat them for 400 years.

16After your descendants have been slaves for 400 years, they will return here, and take control of this land and defeat the Amor people-group. Those people will, because those people have not yet sinned enough to deserve to be punished now."

21the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live."

2One of them was Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. He lived in Heshbon city and ruled over the area from Aroer town along the Arnon River Gorge, north to the Jabbok River. His land started in the middle of the gorge, which was the border between his land and the land of the Ammon people-group. Sihon also ruled over the southern half of the Gilead region,

8… the land where the Heth, Amor, Canaan, Periz, Hiv, and …

14Hormah, Arad,

15Libnah, Adullam,

19Madon, Hazor,

2Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not be afraid of him, because I will enable your army to defeat [MTY] him and all his army and to capture all their land. Do to him what you did to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who ruled in Heshbon city.’

8"So at that time we took from those two kings of the Amor people-group all the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River gorge in the south to Hermon Mountain in the north."

9(That mountain is called Sirion by the people of Sidon city and is called Senir by the Amor people-group.)

13The man who loves me is as delightful as [MET] a ◄sachet/small cloth bag► of myrrh between my breasts.

15You whom I love, you are beautiful;you are very beautiful!Your eyes are as delightful/charming as doves.

16You who love me, you are very delightful/handsome,you are wonderful!This green grass will be like a couch where we lie down.

1I received this message from Yahweh about Damascus the capital of Syria:"Listen carefully! Damascus will no longer be a city;it will be only a heap of ruins!

8You will no longer seek to get help from your idolsor worship the idols that you have made with your own hands [DOU].You will never again bow down in front of the poles where you worship the goddess Asherah.You will never again worship at the shrines that you have built for burning incense.

9The largest cities in Israel will be abandoned, like the land that the Hiv and Amor people-groups abandoned (OR, like the forests that the Canaan people-group abandoned) when the Israelis attacked them long ago.No one will live there.

10That will happen because you have stopped worshiping Godwho is like [MET] a huge rock under which you can be safe.You have forgotten that he is the one who can hide/protect you.So, now you plant very nice grapevinesand even plant very expensive ones that come from other countries.

8So I have come down from heaven to rescue them from the Egyptians [SYN]. I have come to bring them up from that land to the highlands in Canaan. I will bring them to a land that is good/fertile and that has plenty of space. It will be very good for raising livestock and growing crops [MTY]. It is the land where the descendants of Canaan, Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus live.

14God replied, "I AM who I AM." And he said, "Tell the Israeli people that the one who is named ‘I AM’ has sent me to you."

17I promise that I will rescue you from being oppressed in Egypt, and I will take you to the land where the descendants of Canaan, Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus live. It is a land good for raising livestock and growing crops [MTY]."’

7Solomon forced people from many other groups who were not Israelis to work for him like slaves. They were people from the Heth, Amor, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people-groups.

16They did all the work of building the temple that Solomon told them to do, until it was all completed. So they finishing building the temple.

7Then they turned back and went to Mishpat city, which is now called Kadesh. They conquered all the land belonging to the Amalek people-group and the Amor people-group who were living in Hazazon-Tamar town.

13Abram was living near the big trees near Mamre, who belonged to the Amor people-group. Abram had made an agreement with Mamre and his two brothers, Eshcol and Aner, that they would help each other if there was a war.

23that I will not accept even one thread or a thong of a sandal from anything that belongs to you. As a result, you will never be able to say, ‘I caused Abram to become rich.’

14The Israeli army was able to capture again the Israeli villages between Ekron and Gath that the Philistia army had captured before. The Israelis were also able to take again the other areas around those cities that the Philistia army had taken from the Israelis previously. And there was peace between the Israelis and the Amor people-group.

17After he listened to disputes and made decisions in each of those towns, he returned to his home at Ramah, and he would listen to people’s disputes there, also, and make decisions about them. And he built an altar at Ramah to offer sacrifices to Yahweh.

34The people of the Amor people-group forced the people of the tribe of Dan to live in the hills. They did not allow them to come down and live on the plain.

35The people of the Amor people-group were determined to stay in Heres Mountain and in Aijalon and Shaalbim cities. But when the Israelis became ◄stronger/more numerous►, they forced the people of the Amor people-group to work as their slaves.

36The land where the Amor people-group lived extended from Scorpion Pass toward the west beyond Sela town, up into the hilly area.

18"Go to Samaria and talk to Ahab, the king of Israel. He is in the vineyard of a man named Naboth. He has gone there to claim that he now owns it.

26The most abominable/detestable thing that Ahab did was to worship idols, just like the Amor people-group had done. And that is why Yahweh took the Amor people’s land from them and gave it to the Israelis.