In my time of trouble I sought ¹  the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. ²  I ³  refused to be comforted.

“Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ²  and how I have carried out your will.” ³  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ⁴ 

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem ¹  to kill both people and animals!

If ¹  it is spreading further ²  on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. ³  It is an infection.

David thought about what they said ¹  and was very afraid of King Achish of Gath.

So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. ¹ 

The battle was thick ¹  around Saul; the archers spotted him and wounded him. ² 

I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom.

May all my enemies be humiliated ¹  and absolutely terrified! ²  May they turn back and be suddenly humiliated!

I am numb with pain and severely battered; ¹  I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel. ² 

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; ¹  you have covered us with darkness. ² 

The one who puts up security for a stranger ¹  will surely have trouble, ²  but whoever avoids ³  shaking hands ⁴  will be secure.

In light of all this, ¹  how can you still hold back, Lord? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

Then he went up with them into the boat, and the wind ceased. They were completely astonished,

He took Peter, James, ¹  and John with him, and became very troubled and distressed.

Early in the morning ¹  Abimelech summoned ²  all his servants. When he told them about all these things, ³  they ⁴  were terrified.

Now I understand that ¹  you have gone away ²  because you longed desperately ³  for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?” ⁴ 

People from every country ¹  came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

The priest must then examine it, ¹  and if ²  the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. ³  It is a disease.

so the priest is to examine the raw flesh ¹  and pronounce him unclean ²  – it is diseased.