“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite ¹  of the lions,

Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game ¹  for me.

Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. ¹  When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back, ² 

If I lift myself up, ¹  you hunt me as a fierce lion, ²  and again ³  you display your power ⁴  against me.

A slanderer ¹  will not endure on ²  the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down. ³ 

“How long until you ¹  make an end of words? ²  You must consider, ³  and then ⁴  we can talk.

“‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note ¹  that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people’s lives ²  like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people’s lives, which you hunt like birds.

and say ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to those who sew bands ¹  on all their wrists ²  and make headbands ³  for heads of every size to entrap people’s lives! ⁴  Will you entrap my people’s lives, yet preserve your own lives?

But for now I, the Lord, say: ¹  “I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks. ² 

Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to look for Saul,

With bow and arrow ¹  men will hunt ²  there, for the whole land will be covered ³  with thorns and briers.

Faithful men have disappeared ¹  from the land; there are no godly men left. ²  They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; ³  they hunt their own brother with a net. ⁴ 

The nations – the surrounding regions – attacked him. They threw their net over him; he was caught in their pit.

Can you tie the bands ¹  of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

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

if ¹  you seek ²  it like silver, ³  and search for it ⁴  like hidden treasure,

A wicked scoundrel ¹  digs up ²  evil, and his slander ³  is like a scorching fire. ⁴ 

Pursue them ¹  in anger and eradicate them from under the Lord’s heaven.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.

Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left ¹  his father’s ²  presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt. ³