So he caused them to die unsatisfied ¹  and filled with terror. ² 

He rained hail down on their cattle, ¹  and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock. ² 

The Lord ¹  made his people very fruitful, and made them ²  more numerous than their ³  enemies.

He calmed the storm, ¹  and the waves ²  grew silent.

The north wind ¹  brings forth rain, and a gossiping tongue ²  brings forth ³  an angry look. ⁴ 

ו (Vav) He destroyed his temple ¹  as if it were a vineyard; ²  he destroyed his appointed meeting place. The Lord has made those in Zion forget both the festivals and the Sabbaths. ³  In his fierce anger ⁴  he has spurned ⁵  both king and priest.

ע (Ayin) The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled ¹  his promise ²  that he threatened ³  long ago: ⁴  He has overthrown you without mercy ⁵  and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power. ⁶ 

ב (Bet) He has made my mortal skin ¹  waste away; he has broken my bones.

He has made me reside in deepest darkness ¹  like those who died long ago.

Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel. ¹ 

“I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. ¹  I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field ²  would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.

Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people ¹  because of these words.

“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away. ¹ 

They caused confusion among ¹  the crowd and the city officials ²  who heard these things.

I planted, ¹  Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.

You be on guard against him ¹  too, because he vehemently opposed our words.

But Isaac asked his son, “How in the world ¹  did you find it so quickly, ²  my son?” “Because the Lord your God brought it to me,” ³  he replied. ⁴ 

Moses instructed them to take ¹  his message ²  throughout the camp, saying, “Let no man or woman do any more work for the offering for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing any more. ³ 

She made him go to sleep on her lap ¹  and then called a man in to shave off ²  the seven braids of his hair. ³  She made him vulnerable ⁴  and his strength left him.

Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I am guilty ¹  of all the deaths in your father’s house!