then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help ¹  and vindicate them. ² 

Because of their distress, they turned back to the Lord God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them. ¹ 

“To the one in despair, kindness ¹  should come from his friend ²  even if ³  he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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

This oppressed man cried out and the Lord heard; he saved him ¹  from all his troubles.

O God, listen to my prayer! Pay attention to what I say! ¹ 

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

For this reason what they have made and stored up, they carry over the Stream of the Poplars.

But with an overwhelming flood ¹  he will make a complete end of Nineveh; ²  he will drive ³  his enemies into darkness.

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

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, ¹  and I do not burn with indignation?

You will then eat your own offspring, ¹  the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege ²  by which your enemies will constrict you.

He will withhold from all of them his children’s flesh that he is eating (since there is nothing else left), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict ¹  you in your villages.

כ (Kaf) All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. ¹  They exchanged ²  their valuables ³  for ⁴  just enough food to stay alive. ⁵ “Look, O Lord! Consider ⁶  that I have become worthless!”

The sailors were so afraid that each cried out ¹  to his own god ²  and they flung ³  the ship’s cargo ⁴  overboard ⁵  to make the ship lighter. ⁶  Jonah, meanwhile, ⁷  had gone down ⁸  into the hold ⁹  below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.

and will secretly eat her afterbirth ¹  and her newborn children ²  (since she has nothing else), ³  because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

Then Rachel said, “I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won.” ¹  So she named him Naphtali. ² 

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 

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 

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