He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry –

Simon ¹  answered, ²  “Master, ³  we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word ⁴  I will lower ⁵  the nets.”

Jesus ¹  answered them, ²  “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry –

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

And even if I am unskilled ¹  in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder ¹  and said, “You must ²  hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men ³  a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?” ⁴ 

Esau exclaimed, “‘Jacob’ is the right name for him! ¹  He has tripped me up ²  two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked, “Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”

I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; ¹  I have obeyed you ²  and have done everything you have commanded me.

for you have not yet come to the final stop ¹  and inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.

For I have obeyed the Lord’s commands; ¹  I have not rebelled against my God. ² 

Why then have you broken the oath you made before the Lord and disobeyed the order I gave you?” ¹ 

Have I not wept for the unfortunate? ¹  Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

They ¹  neither know nor understand. They stumble ²  around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble. ³ 

They have almost destroyed me here on the earth, but I do not reject your precepts.

I do not turn aside from your regulations, for you teach me.

ר (Resh) See my pain and rescue me! For I do not forget your law.

Wisdom is unattainable ¹  for a fool; in court ²  he does not open his mouth. ³ 

The righteous person cares for ¹  the legal rights ²  of the poor; the wicked does not understand such ³  knowledge.

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed ¹  from their filthiness. ² 

For you know in your own heart ¹  that you also have cursed others many times.