Now send word quickly to David and warn him, ¹  “Don’t spend the night at the fords of the desert ²  tonight. Instead, be sure you cross over, ³  or else the king and everyone who is with him may be overwhelmed.” ⁴ 

Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill ¹  her with thirst.

so that although they look they may look but not see, and although they hear they may hear but not understand, so they may not repent and be forgiven.” ¹ 

But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ ¹  (that is, a gift for God),

I say again, let no one think that I am a fool. ¹  But if you do, then at least accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

I am confident ¹  in the Lord that you will accept no other view. ²  But the one who is confusing ³  you will pay the penalty, ⁴  whoever he may be.

But if you do not agree to our terms ¹  by being circumcised, then we will take ²  our sister ³  and depart.”

He must not defile himself as a husband among his people so as to profane himself. ¹ 

If ¹  your children sinned against him, he gave them over ²  to the penalty ³  of their sin.

“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?” ¹ 

He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

Otherwise they will rip ¹  me ²  to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me. ³ 

Certainly ¹  you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; ²  you do not desire a burnt sacrifice. ³ 

The steps of a person ¹  are ordained by ²  the Lord – so how can anyone ³  understand his own ⁴  way?

Fear the Lord, my child, ¹  as well as the king, and do not associate ²  with rebels, ³ 

Don’t set foot too frequently ¹  in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary ²  of you and hate you.

So do not be excessively righteous or excessively ¹  wise; ²  otherwise ³  you might ⁴  be disappointed. ⁵ 

Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool; otherwise ¹  you might die before your time.

But they said, “Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.” ¹ 

So ¹  he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!” ²