when the dust hardens ¹  into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

People ¹  have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; ²  they unite ³  together against me.

for a crowd of people ¹  followed them, ²  screaming, “Away with him!”

I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

He shrouded himself in darkness, ¹  in thick rain clouds. ² 

Its boughs were strong, fit ¹  for rulers’ scepters; it reached up into the clouds. It stood out because of its height and its many branches. ² 

If the first portion ¹  of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches. ² 

why it is so dark you cannot see, ¹  and why a flood ²  of water covers you.

Hide them in the dust ¹  together, imprison ²  them ³  in the grave. ⁴ 

He piles up the water of the sea; ¹  he puts the oceans ²  in storehouses.

The sea has swept over Babylon. She has been covered by a multitude ¹  of its waves. ² 

But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters. ¹ 

A little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise! ¹ 

There was ¹  a lot of grumbling ²  about him among the crowds. ³  Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” ⁴ 

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day). ¹ 

Your chosen ¹  cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem ²  is a desolate ruin.

Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. ¹  It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives. ² 

They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the city of bloodshed! I will also make the pile high.

I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, ¹  the stronghold of Egypt; I will cut off ²  the hordes of Thebes.