So they yelled louder and, in accordance with their prescribed ritual, ¹  mutilated themselves with swords and spears until their bodies were covered with blood. ² 

Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

“Because of this, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, ‘I am determined to bring disaster on you, ¹  even to the point of destroying all the Judeans here. ² 

A ¹  very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

The one who reaps receives pay ¹  and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

When David heard in the desert that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest. ¹ 

He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply. ¹ 

“They cry, ¹  ‘Harvest time has come and gone, and the summer is over, ²  and still we have not been delivered.’

ס (Samek) You shrouded yourself ¹  with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.

Terror ¹  is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Then the soldiers cut the ropes ¹  of the ship’s boat and let it drift away. ² 

I have sent ¹  him (who is my very heart) ²  back to you.

They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave ¹  them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.

Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, ¹  and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so ²  you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, ³  and you will live securely in your land.

The men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so we can execute him! ¹  He pulled down the Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.”

So Ruth ¹  worked beside ²  Boaz’s female servants, gathering grain until the end of the barley harvest as well as the wheat harvest. ³  After that she stayed home with her mother-in-law. ⁴ 

So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, ¹  and then sent them away.

A blacksmith works with his tool ¹  and forges metal over the coals. He forms it ²  with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; ³  he drinks no water and gets tired.