The earth is defiled by ¹  its inhabitants, ²  for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, ³  and broken the permanent treaty. ⁴ 

For the fortified city ¹  is left alone; it is a deserted settlement and abandoned like the desert. Calves ²  graze there; they lie down there and eat its branches bare. ³ 

This is your fate, the destiny to which I have appointed you, because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods.

It has tried my patience; ¹  yet its thick rot is not removed ²  from it. Subject its rot to the fire! ³ 

he reveals deep and hidden things. He knows what is in the darkness, and light resides with him.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. ¹  For apart from the law, sin is dead.

“‘You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen. ¹ 

“‘When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman, ¹  although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. ²  They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

It then went up the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites on the south (that is, Jerusalem), ¹  going up to the top of the hill opposite the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the Valley of the Rephaites to the north.

Now the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the City of Date Palm Trees to Arad in the desert of Judah, ¹  located in the Negev. ²  They went and lived with the people of Judah. ³ 

The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate ¹  him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Will you speak wickedly ¹  on God’s behalf? ²  Will you speak deceitfully for him?

Would not his splendor ¹  terrify ²  you and the fear he inspires ³  fall on you?

But man ¹  dies and is powerless; ²  he expires – and where is he? ³ 

my ¹  lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper ²  no deceit.

You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

You do damage with words, ¹  and use your tongue to deceive. ² 

Disaster is within it; violence ¹  and deceit do not depart from its public square.

All your commands are reliable. I am pursued without reason. ¹  Help me!

I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.