The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. ¹  Who can understand it?

I desperately long to know ¹  your regulations at all times.

I will be secure, ¹  for I seek your precepts.

Also, when I cry out desperately ¹  for help, ²  he has shut out my prayer. ³ 

He begged Jesus ¹  repeatedly not to send them out of the region.

And they began to beg ¹  him not to order ²  them to depart into the abyss. ³ 

It hurls itself against him without pity ¹  as he flees headlong from its power.

כ (Kaf) I desperately long for ¹  your deliverance. I find hope in your word.

You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!” ¹ 

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 

Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, ¹  for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

Then David prayed to ¹  God for the child and fasted. ²  He would even ³  go and spend the night lying on the ground.

Now David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. In the course of time David’s son Amnon fell madly in love with her. ¹ 

God looks down from heaven ¹  at the human race, ²  to see if there is anyone who is wise ³  and seeks God. ⁴ 

I desperately want to be ¹  in the courts of the Lord’s temple. ²  My heart and my entire being ³  shout for joy to the living God.

The Beloved about Her Lover: All night long ¹  on my bed ²  I longed for ³  my lover. ⁴  I longed for ⁵  him but he never appeared. ⁶ 

Instead, they tried to row ¹  back to land, ²  but they were not able to do so ³  because the storm kept growing worse and worse. ⁴ 

He ¹  was trying to get a look at Jesus, ²  but being a short man he could not see over the crowd. ³ 

that during a severe ordeal of suffering, their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in the wealth ¹  of their generosity.

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked ¹  because he wanted Jacob’s daughter Dinah ²  badly. (Now he was more important ³  than anyone in his father’s household.) ⁴