“Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, ¹  who seek the Lord! Look at the rock from which you were chiseled, at the quarry ²  from which you were dug! ³ 

“Take the shorts that you bought and are wearing ¹  and go at once ²  to Perath. ³  Bury the shorts there ⁴  in a crack in the rocks.”

“The prince ¹  who is among them will raise his belongings ²  onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He ³  will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; ¹  there was no water in it.)

One who digs a pit may ¹  fall into it, and one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake. ² 

He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.

The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. ¹  They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; ²  they will be terrified ³  of you. ⁴ 

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 

The five Amorite kings ¹  ran away and hid in the cave at Makkedah.

David was in the stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem. ¹ 

David was in the stronghold at the time, while a Philistine garrison was in Bethlehem. ¹ 

when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

so that he might continue to live ¹  forever and not experience death. ² 

for a prostitute is like ¹  a deep pit; a harlot ²  is like ³  a narrow well. ⁴ 

In the morning, at the earliest sign of daylight, the king got up and rushed to the lions’ den.

So I went to Perath and dug up ¹  the shorts from the place where I had buried them. I found ²  that they were ruined; they were good for nothing.

Leave your towns, you inhabitants of Moab. Go and live in the cliffs. Be like a dove that makes its nest high on the sides of a ravine. ¹ 

The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed ¹  and strangled prey to provide food ²  for his lionesses; he filled ³  his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh.