“Yes, Lord,” she replied, ¹  “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

When the sun came up it was scorched, and because it did not have sufficient root, ¹  it withered.

Now ¹  while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest’s slave girls ²  came by.

let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.” ¹ 

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his ¹  commandments which I am urging ²  you today to be careful to do.

The Lord ¹  said to the man dressed in linen, “Go between the wheelwork ²  underneath the cherubim. ³  Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” He went as I watched.

I listened and my stomach churned; ¹  the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, ²  and I shook as I tried to walk. ³  I long ⁴  for the day of distress to come upon ⁵  the people who attack us.

Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and lentil stew; Esau ate and drank, then got up and went out. ¹  So Esau despised his birthright. ² 

Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

“On the south will be the divisions of the camp of Reuben under their standard. ¹  The leader of the people of Reuben is Elizur son of Shedeur.

“On the west will be the divisions of the camp of Ephraim under their standard. The leader of the people of Ephraim is Elishama son of Amihud.

“On the north will be the divisions of the camp of Dan, under their standards. The leader of the people of Dan is Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out ¹  on the roof.)

Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent. The things were hidden right in his tent, with the silver underneath. ¹ 

the territory of Byblos ¹  and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath. ² 

They even built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; ¹  my tears saturate the cushion beneath me. ² 

Yes, ¹  throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; ²  the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh. ³ 

The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. ¹  The Lord loves the godly.