You ¹  go get straw for yourselves wherever you can ²  find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

You have broken down all his ¹  walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.

Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin. ¹ 

So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

Joseph ¹  made all the people slaves ²  from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.

for on account ¹  of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man ²  preys on your precious life. ³ 

and they ¹  made the Israelites serve rigorously. ² 

He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

The city is left in ruins; ¹  the gate is reduced to rubble. ² 

But at his gate lay ¹  a poor man named Lazarus ²  whose body was covered with sores, ³ 

but if ¹  he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price ²  for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

Peninnah ¹  would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah ²  went up to the Lord’s house, Peninnah ³  would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.

like heat ¹  in a dry land, you humble the boasting foreigners. ²  Just as the shadow of a cloud causes the heat to subside, ³  so he causes the song of tyrants to cease. ⁴ 

My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; ¹  I have escaped ²  alive ³  with only the skin of my teeth.

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible. ¹ 

Moab is my washbasin. ¹  I will make Edom serve me. ²  I will shout in triumph over Philistia.” ³ 

The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall. ¹ 

By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade, you desecrated your sanctuaries. So I drew fire out from within you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth before the eyes of all who saw you.

Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted ¹  the money paid for us! ²