How miserable I am! ¹  For I have lived temporarily ²  in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar. ³ 

Do not eat the food of a stingy person, ¹  do not crave his delicacies;

you will vomit up ¹  the little bit you have eaten, and will have wasted your pleasant words. ² 

I have observed the burden that God has given to people ¹  to keep them occupied.

Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, ¹  and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

A fool will no longer be called honorable; a deceiver will no longer be called principled.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

They made their lives bitter ¹  by ²  hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service ³  in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous. ⁴ 

Why ¹  have you brought us up from Egypt only to bring us to ²  this dreadful place? It is no place for grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink!”

Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, ¹  for the Lord had not enabled her to have children.

May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! ¹  May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed! ² 

For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; ¹  they are robbed of sleep ²  until they make someone stumble. ³ 

In light of all this, ¹  how can you still hold back, Lord? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?

“‘I passed by you and saw you kicking around helplessly in your blood. I said to you as you lay there in your blood, “Live!” I said to you as you lay there in your blood, “Live!” ¹ 

So listen carefully, ¹  for whoever has will be given more, but ²  whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has ³  will be taken from him.”

We know that ¹  our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, ²  so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Grieve, mourn, ¹  and weep. Turn your laughter ²  into mourning and your joy into despair.

And Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you afflicted ¹  your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that ²  you lay the burden of this entire people on me?

He said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I brought Israel up from Egypt and I delivered you from the power ¹  of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.