Do not disregard ¹  what your enemies say, ²  or the unceasing shouts of those who defy you. ³ 

When the earth and all its inhabitants dissolve in fear, ¹  I make its pillars secure.” ²  (Selah)

¹ I say to the proud, “Do not be proud,” and to the wicked, “Do not be so confident of victory! ² 

Do not be so certain you have won! ¹  Do not speak with your head held so high! ² 

For victory does not come from the east or west, or from the wilderness. ¹ 

As for me, I will continually tell what you have done; ¹  I will sing praises to the God of Jacob!

God says, ¹  “I will bring down all the power of the wicked; the godly will be victorious.” ² 

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of merrymaking. ¹ 

According to the genealogical records of their families, they had 36,000 warriors available for battle, for they had numerous wives and sons. ¹ 

Now the city was spread out ¹  and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. ²  At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

If I lie down, I say, ¹  ‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on ²  and I toss and turn restlessly ³  until the day dawns.

A well-written song ²  by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? ³  Why does your anger burn ⁴  against the sheep of your pasture?

They say to themselves, ¹  “We will oppress all of them.” ²  They burn down all the places where people worship God in the land. ³ 

We do not see any signs of God’s presence; ¹  there are no longer any prophets ²  and we have no one to tell us how long this will last. ³ 

Do not hand the life of your dove ¹  over to a wild animal! Do not continue to disregard ²  the lives of your oppressed people!

Stop putting your confidence in the false belief that says, ¹  “We are safe! ²  The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here!” ³ 

They are all like bakers, ¹  they ²  are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.

For in seven days ¹  I will cause it to rain ²  on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

Pharaoh will not listen to you. ¹  I will reach into ²  Egypt and bring out my regiments, ³  my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

the two kidneys and the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver (which he must remove along with the kidneys). ¹