Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will bring me to Edom? ¹ 

The Lord is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.” ¹ 

Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, ¹  but righteousness delivers from mortal danger. ² 

Then you will know that I am the Lord – when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, ¹  the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. ¹  For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; ²  they will be among mere mortals, ³  with those who descend to the pit.

On that day there will be no light – the sources of light in the heavens will congeal. ¹ 

“You are the ones who have remained ¹  with me in my trials.

because the sun’s light failed. ¹  The temple curtain ²  was torn in two.

Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. ¹  Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches grew long, because of the plentiful water in its shoots. ¹ 

When the king passed by, he called out to the king, “Your servant went out into the heat ¹  of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. ²  He told me, ‘Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, ³  you will pay with your life or with a talent ⁴  of silver.’ ⁵ 

You people of this generation, listen to what the Lord says. “Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? ¹  Why then do you ²  say, ‘We are free to wander. ³  We will not come to you any more?’

“A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan ¹  scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. ²  So too I will chase the Edomites off their land. ³  Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. ⁴  For there is no one like me, and there is no one who can call me to account. ⁵  There is no ⁶  ruler ⁷  who can stand up against me.

“A lion coming up from the thick undergrowth along the Jordan scatters the sheep in the pastureland around it. So too I will chase the Babylonians off of their land. Then I will appoint over it whomever I choose. For there is no one like me. There is no one who can call me to account. There is no ruler that can stand up against me.

Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; ¹  the archers ²  spotted him and wounded him severely.

The king had them cast in earth foundries ¹  in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

The battle was thick ¹  around Saul; the archers spotted him and wounded him. ² 

The king had them cast in earthen foundries ¹  in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

Because he covered his face with fat, ¹  and made ²  his hips bulge with fat, ³