The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks. ¹ 

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes – both calamity and blessing? ¹ 

Even on male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

Then ¹  Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for everyone?” ² 

I am a debtor ¹  both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that he may show mercy to them all. ¹ 

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing –

Everyone shares the same fate ¹  – the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, ²  the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; ³  what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.

All the people, ¹  rulers, ²  leaders, and judges were standing on either side of the ark, in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Both resident foreigners and native Israelites were there. ³  Half the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the Lord’s servant had previously instructed to them to do for the formal blessing ceremony. ⁴ 

So he overthrew those cities and all that region, ¹  including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew ²  from the ground.

Instruct ¹  the people that each man and each woman is to request ²  from his or her neighbor ³  items of silver and gold.” ⁴ 

Why ¹  have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that ²  we and our cattle should die here?

We put all of these under divine judgment ¹  just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, ²  including women and children.

Ahab’s entire family will die. I ¹  will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated. ² 

Wild oxen will be slaughtered ¹  along with them, as well as strong bulls. ²  Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat.

Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land ¹  through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone. ² 

Then Jeremiah replied to all the people, both men and women, who responded to him in this way. ¹ 

They will bear their punishment; ¹  the punishment of the one who sought an oracle will be the same as the punishment of the prophet who gave it ² 

“Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

“‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill ¹  every person and every animal.