I was blameless before him; I kept myself from sinning. ¹ 

“As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

“Surely now you count my steps; ²  then you would not mark ³  my sin. ⁴ 

His vigorous steps ¹  are restricted, ²  and his own counsel throws him down. ³ 

the young men would see me and step aside, ¹  and the old men would get up and remain standing;

Then I myself will acknowledge ¹  to you that your own right hand can save you. ² 

I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning. ¹ 

Phinehas took a stand and intervened, ¹  and the plague subsided.

Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, ¹  but now I keep your instructions. ² 

O Lord, make the sky sink ¹  and come down! ²  Touch the mountains and make them smolder! ³ 

Make the path for your feet ¹  level, ²  so that ³  all your ways may be established. ⁴ 

All the princes of the sea will vacate ¹  their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you. ² 

So he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Stand up among all these people.” ¹ 

Therefore be very careful how you live – not as unwise but as wise,

“So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth ¹  and with his mouth, ²  and I will teach you both ³  what you must do. ⁴ 

The second bird ¹  he must make a burnt offering according to the standard regulation. ²  So the priest will make atonement ³  on behalf of this person for ⁴  his sin which he has committed, and he will be forgiven. ⁵ 

He did evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord. He continued in ²  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins. ³ 

He did evil in the sight of ¹  the Lord. He did not repudiate ²  the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins. ³ 

And Moses ¹  said to him, “If your presence does not go ²  with us, ³  do not take us up from here. ⁴ 

The Kishon River carried them off; the river confronted them ¹  – the Kishon River. Step on the necks of the strong! ²