“Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, ¹  cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw ¹  him making locusts just as the crops planted late ²  were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest. ³ )

Don’t you say, ¹  ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up ²  and see that the fields are already white ³  for harvest!

So they slipped ¹  the anchors ²  and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage ³  that bound the steering oars ⁴  together. Then they hoisted ⁵  the foresail ⁶  to the wind and steered toward ⁷  the beach.

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, ¹  Rachel stole the household idols ²  that belonged to her father.

Tamar was told, ¹  “Look, your father-in-law is going up ²  to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

A man with crushed ¹  or severed genitals ²  may not enter the assembly of the Lord. ³ 

Afterward David’s conscience bothered him ¹  because he had cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

So he saves ¹  from the sword that comes from their mouth, ²  even ³  the poor from the hand of the powerful.

While they are still beginning to flower ¹  and not ripe for cutting, ²  they can wither away ³  faster ⁴  than any grass! ⁵ 

Speaking recklessly ¹  is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words ²  of the wise bring ³  healing. ⁴ 

Speech ¹  that heals ²  is like ³  a life-giving tree, ⁴  but a perverse tongue ⁵  breaks the spirit.

The sluggard will not plow ¹  during the planting season, ²  so at harvest time he looks ³  for the crop ⁴  but has nothing.

One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall. ¹ 

I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, ¹  the stronghold of Egypt; I will cut off ²  the hordes of Thebes.

And now, ¹  I will break Assyria’s ²  yoke bar ³  from your neck; ⁴  I will tear apart the shackles ⁵  that are on you.” ⁶ 

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle ¹  because the harvest has come.” ² 

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.